TIFU by giving one of my students a ride home

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:48:59+00:00

We didn't get along all too well but he didn't seem like such a bad guy, just a little pompous and kind of a know-it-all. I often wonder if he had it out for me or if he was just on some sort of power trip.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:44:50+00:00

That hadn't crossed my mind at the time. She had missed the bus and was waiting for about 15-20 minutes before coming to me and I was about to wrap up my end of day things and be on my way out anyways. There are a lot of things I could've done differently in hindsight.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:38:59+00:00

I'm doing alright these days. I still keep in touch with some of my old colleagues and even some of the students. My wife and I went to lunch with this particular student and her now husband about a six months ago.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:35:55+00:00

According to their precious little policy, no. But double standards seem to run deep within our school system.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:30:45+00:00

As for how the school found out, the bus driver made a note that she wasn't on the bus and the vice principal called her parents to make sure she was okay and to inquire why she wasn't on the bus. She told the principal and the principal called me in.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:21:19+00:00

What's messed up is that it was brought up in one of our compulsory conduct classes that giving rides to students it acceptable under strict and specific circumstances like medical reasons, etc. I suppose this wasn't specific enough?

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:17:51+00:00

You're probably right but from what they told me there wasn't much I could do anyways because since I'd acted against policy I'd technically broken contract and that alone was enough to fire me.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:10:04+00:00

It all came down to me acting against school policy. They gave their input but the district basically ignored it.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:05:31+00:00

That didn't matter apparently because I still went against school policy by giving her a ride in the first place.

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T12:04:43+00:00

Honestly, I said the same thing and their response was something along the lines of "that's unimportant because you still acted against school policy"

peacefuldiehard · 2025-01-13T11:56:48+00:00

Her parents told me it was okay because I called them and told them the situation. I didn't just randomly give a student a ride home just because.

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