Did It Hurt!

Did it hurt?

What do you think...tell me...

If you were his mother and he came home from school and you were undressing him from his school clothes and were lifting his arm out of his sleeve and he told you owey..which is how he spoke back then for hurt..and you discovered this..

Each of his ribs were bruised inside.

I was upset and took the photo and emailed the principle..asking how did this happen..?

on his inquiry I found out that he was being tested by the school educational psychologist, and was fidgeting in his chair tucking his feet under him and out from under him trying to get comfortable on the slippery metal chair and he fell...Apparently he cried but she gave him and ice cream and he stopped..no one examined him...no one called home and said your child is hurt..she returned him to his homeroom class and told the teacher he fell but was fine..

Sammy has no reflex defense movements on his left side...not one soul reached out to keep him from falling..okay..so they did not catch him falling..but any mother..the first thing she does is check to see if the child is injured even if the child says I am okay..we look..don't we..

This is another one of the reasons, my child fears going to school, no one cares if he is safe.

now we are only going to sightly get into..my child going missing from school part..of it all

when he was supposed to be on the special needs bus..but was found at 7 years of age..on the North West River Bridge..and that is a big bridge..trying to find his way to his mommas work..

That was only one of three times he went missing from school that year..

okay lets talk about a little 7 year old child who can't zip his own coat yet with one hand..and the parents who called me saying he was left outside alone with his coat not zipped waiting for the special needs bus..to come..now how much trouble is it for a student aid..to bend down and zip up a one handed child's coat..and put his mittens on..

Tip of the Ice burg

9 year old child with cerebral palsy found frozen on path leading to Grand Lake, North West River.

This could have been what could have happened.

I am sitting at my place of work..I get a phone call...your child has gone missing from school...mom..well where is he we don't know..he ran away from school and is missing..mom..well how come you don't know where he is..

He is off school premises so he is no longer our responsibility...????????

Mom..what..he could die out there ..it is 28 below zero..he has no coat, no mitts, no boots on...and you did not go after him because it is not your responsibility?

Well what do you want us to do ms. vanderMeij..call the RCMP...?

mom..no by the time they arrive here from Goose Bay he could be dead from hypothermia or lost up grand lake...

must go and arrange a search party..for him..bye

We were lucky and we did find Sammy quickly ..and he was at the head of the path leading up Grand Lake..he was exposed to - 28 winter weather for over 1o minutes..his tears was frozen in his face and clothes..and he had the beginnings of frost bite on his cheek..he was shivering...like mad..but his daddy..held him close to his body until his body warmed up...

You know..what seems so wrong in all this..is that if..I as a mother..was the one that these things that has happened to Sammy..happened in my care..he would taken away from me ...

so why..is this allowed to happen in a school..?

I have been as high as the child advocates office in Newfoundland..with no success in improving things for my child..I have talked to as many outside the school as I can..but still nothing changes...

So do you think this has had an effect..and may be the reason..my child..hates school..