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Vent: my kid's school banned the word "fidget" and now my son can't describe his own hands
My son has ADHD and used the word fidget to explain why he taps his pencil during tests, and his teacher in Boise wrote him up for using a "disruptive term." I went to the principal with the actual dictionary definition, and they still wouldn't back down, so now he just says "my hands are loud" instead. Does anyone know if there's a real appeals process for this stuff, or do I just eat it?
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skyler_anderson6511d ago
Your son saying his hands are loud is kind of a great way to put it honestly. But the whole thing sounds off to me. A school banning a word that's literally in the dictionary and on every ADHD website out there? That seems like a stretch. Teachers deal with way worse words than fidget every single day. Maybe the teacher just did not like how he said it or when he said it, and fidget became the excuse. I would ask for the write up in writing and see what rule it actually broke. If there is no rule on the books about it, then there is nothing to appeal.
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