Principal Sends Home Pornographic Photo  

I believe that situation was handled very poorly. If they had caught your son passing it around - or even having it in his possession at school - they should not have sent the picture home. You should have been called immediately to go to the school and handle the situation.

If he got caught with a photo like that she should have kept it in her office and called you for a meeting to talk about the situation. Not send it home with the child. As far as the pictures I think every little boy gets there hands on something like this at some point. I would be talking to him. Give punishment as you see fit. I would be mad to. It seems now days the school calls for petty things but when its something important they over look it because they do not want to deal with it.

This is just terrible I would be outraged!!! She definately should have called you first rather than your son carrying that kind of picture around!
Crying over spilled milk? I can't believe these principal's and teacher's these days. She should have handled it differently for sure. I think she did break some rules by sending it home this way. That is so aweful. I can't even imagine how I would feel if a teacher did this to me. Sounds to me like you handled this very well as well as you can.

gyfted1, I do! I feel that the school principal and teacher are morons and so are the school authorities :) I say this because whether or not your child and another child were involved in passing that thing around in class really isn't the point; nor is them saying the original principal you spoke with didn't break any rules by sending it home without an explanation. The point is just as you said, the teacher handled the whole thing carelessly as did all the principals spoken to about that picture! I do not understand why the teacher couldn't just write in the note itself that she was concerned about the material enclosed?!? And to tell a parent there's no sense in crying over spilled milk is asine and insane when it concerns your child! You have every right to be concerned about the stuff that's passed around school or it getting into the hands of other children. The principals you spoke with, and the teacher, should have had the courtesy of writing an explanation to you about why that picture was being sent home with your child when they gave him the note. To not do so was careless and irresponsible. A child's school is responsible for explaining the whole situation to you, the parent. How else is a parent supposed to know what's going on in their child's school if the school "authorities" do not explain what's happening to the child's parent.

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OMG! i would be flipping out.
i think you handled it alot better then i would have. i would have expected them to keep the boy in the princibles office,called you and then waited for you to get there. sat and had a confence and figured out a punishment. OR getitng down to the truth.
because if your son really wasnt the one passing it wround he shouldnt get into trouble for what other kids were doing...
How old is your son anyways?...

i think they should have taken that paper, and if the insisted you see it. had you come up there. not send it home with him.
i thin thats outrageous.
thats grpahic material not for kids...
here in my state. the kids and every other kid invvolved would have been suspended.

Yeah I agree with you! The picture should not have been sent home, it should not have left the principals officw once it got there. They should defeniatly have called you and told you of the situation. Returning that kind of picture to you son was defeniatly stupid and not at all the right call! And I thought it was very disrespectful what the administrator said to you!

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The school was totally wrong. It doesn't even make any sense. What was that principal thinking? Apparently she was hoping to avoid a confrontation and that you were the type of parent that would just let it go without fuss.
I think in a lot of ways schools are careless when it comes to dicipline matters. Whenever we went to teacher's conferences and brought things up most of the time the teachers made us sound like we were overreacting.
There are times when our daughter's school acts like the chilren have no brains and the other half the time they act like the kids are extremely responsible. So which is it?

This is a horrible way of dealing with the issue! The school should have called you and explained the situation. In fact, if I were the teacher, I would request for you to come down and have a talk with both your child and yourself. The photo should not have even left the principals office. It's folly on the school's side an the principal should have apologized for the way it was handled.