everything ended up being okay when I called the parents.
(thank goodness!)

We have a set policy of having to contact parents before we
write up a kid or giving a zero for cheating, so I had to
call. The result I want was: to tell the parent, get off the
phone, and be able to fill out the "parent contacted" box of
the write-up. :)

(It's always a lot of fun when a kid refuses to go to a lunch
detention over something minor and so I have to write them up
and contact parents and then the parents yell at me because
the kid is in trouble stemming from chewing gum or some small
infraction, but the reason for the write up is defiance. I
swear the only reason why they make us call ahead of time is
to try to encourage us not to write kids up. Not only is it a
time suck for the APs, our campuses make goals each year for
decreasing write-ups even though we are a growing campus and
each year get bigger!)

On 11/02/09, sb wrote:
> In the past I've had some not so supportive parents when
> it came to cheating. Some of it is obvious "my kid is
> perfect" syndrome where I'm tole "he has never been
> accussed of cheating before!" (I've never been acussed of
> murder before, but if I kiled someone I don't think a jury
> would buy that as a defense...)
>
> any tips on how to say this in a way that gets parents to
> support you?

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