2nd graders with restraining orders?! I've seen it all now!

[astrid]

Dh and I coached dd's softball team this season, and last night dh and I attended the "Coaches Appreciation Dinner" at a local restaurant. It's a small town and we knew almost everyone there. During the course of conversation at our table, it came up that there had been an issue that cropped up in the town's A-league baseball league. It seems that there are two 2nd graders who have restraining orders against each other, and they were originally placed on the same team. Obviously, the mom who makes out the teams and schedules for each league had no idea that these boys had this commonality. It was quickly realized at the first practice and one boy was placed on another team. But in a small town, it was inevitable that the boys would meet on opposing teams at least once during the season.

They did. The police had to be called. Now there is a pending lawsuit against our little town's Little League Commission because one of the parents is claiming that they deliberately put her child in harm's way.

Wow. And people wonder why we homeschool! :blink:

[Kelli in TN]

Um, maybe these families should consider some family counseling? Some counseling for the kids? Something?

That is the weirdest thing I think I have heard all week.

[TraceyS/FL]

I had a mom sit and talk to me about how she thinks kids should be in PS and blah blah blah, and the next week in class she was telling a friend about how her DD had an issue at school (2nd grade level) and the police were involved, with restraining orders and she has spearheaded the getting a cop on campus and blah blah blah (because i can't remember the details at the moment! LOL!!).

But i was just shocked. Thinking gee, why do my kids need to experience that in 2nd grade???

In your case, that is insane. Exactly - how the heck can you keep the kids apart?????

:(

[MeganP]

That is crazy! What could have happened between these two boys that would cause the court to issue a restraining order? And who could be so stupid as to hold the little league responsible when their teams play against each other? Shouldn't it be the parents' responsibility to keep the boys apart?

What is this world coming to?

[summer]

Based on how out of control the schools get these days with bullying and such, it only makes sense that restraining orders are starting. My bet is that one if the bully and the other the victim, but of course, the family of the bully, like a typical bully family, took the "not my kid" attitude and got a restraining order themselves.

[abbeyej]

Based on how out of control the schools get these days with bullying and such, it only makes sense that restraining orders are starting. My bet is that one if the bully and the other the victim, but of course, the family of the bully, like a typical bully family, took the "not my kid" attitude and got a restraining order themselves.

That was my guess. We actually had an experience a few years ago that makes what you describe seem pretty plausible to me. We moved away shortly afterward and didn't have to face the situation anymore, but the child involved has since been to public school and been kicked out of the first grade because he was so violent and his parents refused to acknowledge that there were any problems (much less address them). His younger sister had lost baby teeth, sustained major burns, and more by the time she was two years old, and the parents didn't acknowledge a problem... The mom home schools now, because her son isn't allowed back to the public school he originally attended, and she refuses the psychological intervention and alternative schooling that putting him in another public school would require. He's ten now. I can see filing a restraining order against that child, if we were in a small town and unable to avoid him completely... (And in our case, the mom kept pressing herself and her children on us -- going to places where she knew we would be, etc, in part, I think, to prove that they "didn't have a problem"...)

I can't imagine the lawsuit. That part baffles me.

Man, I'm feeling ill just thinking about my experience with that other mom and her frightening, frightening son...

[CleoQc]

My niece started Kinder a few years ago. There was a boy in her class that was just as violent. At one point the K teacher punished the boy in a somewhat severe manner. Nothing that wasn't legal and appropriate, but the boy didn't appreciate it one bit.
You know what happened next? The very same evening, well night, it was midnight, two bikers (as in Hell's Angels bikers!) banged on the door of the school *director*. They told the director they knew very well where his teenage daughter was taking ballet classes, and if the boy was punished again, the teenage daughter would be raped on her way back.
:scared:

So the boy was left to do as he wished in the K class. My niece was able to get a transfer to another school, but very few kids did.

[Mamabegood]

:eek:

Okay, it's official--I am now taking my family and moving to a distant, isolated moutaintop.

How sick can you get...

:eek: