suspended for a school project

[sio]

you have a high-school aged daughter in a business and communications class. a video assignment "to create a persuasive promo or advertisement" is given and she chooses to create an anti-bullying message.

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[zinnea]

Ok, this is the part that I don't get. What was the complaining parent complaining about? And how does this tie to the school punishing her?

Because if I saw something like that and thought it was real I would call the school trying to get help for the girl who is being bullied. I would expect that when the administration saw that it was a school project, they would call me back and tell me that I'll be glad to know that it's not a real student being bullied, it's a project by a student to speak about bullying. At which point I'd be done, relieved that no one's being hurt.

I'm really curious about parent who called into complain (including wondering if they even exist, to be frank) and what their motivations are because, seriously, the only "complaint" to be made is "hey, you guys need to look out for this kid at your school" and if there's no action to be taken...

At this point I can't help but think there's something more sinister going on here. The school's behavior makes me very, very suspicious and I am not going to be surprised if it turns out that the principal or someone else on staff is doing something VERY VERY bad.

[sio]

At this point I can't help but think there's something more sinister going on here.

you're not the only one, though mine was on a different vein.

after "WTF is this shit", my mind went "oh i'll bet a dollar the whiner parent has a bully brat. so they're calling to say it's 'offensive' and raising enough hell so that they focus on punishing Jessica for making it--and that way, this won't lead to the school giving her kudos and starting up an anti-bullying awareness campaign on campus--because their kid would be caught and nailed to the wall."

but then i'm cynical like that due to years of personal experience with lazy school administrators. not to mention all the (true) bullycide stories in the news just prove that point further.

[zinnea]

I hadn't considered that angle but now that you mention it, yeah, there's another possibility.

There's definitely something rotten going on there.