Sentenced to Hell

Today many parents are learning which classes/teachers their kids will get next week (in Knox Co.). We just got what amounts to a sentence in hell for our daughter. She's been placed with a great teacher, make no mistake. But she's been placed in a class with the worst bully she's had to put up with since KINDERGARTEN. She's had to tolerate this little puke for three years now, and looking down the barrel of a fourth has her in tears, as well as her mom.

Of course, I doubt we have any recourse. The schools basically have no power, use no logic, and care not a whit for the child in the class. It's more a game of averages. As long as that gub'mint money rolls in thanks to test scores, they just throw these kids together with no matter the consequences.

The consequences so far of two bad placements at Sterchi Elementary for my daughter? She's learning school is NOT a safe place. It is a place to dread going every day. It is the home of her tormenters, her friends locked away in other classes.

We're evaluating our options now, but I'm not sure what we CAN do, except wait for our daughter to become psychologically damaged and then sue the school system. Glad to see it all works.