Chicago Elementary School Officials: Alleged Gun on School Bus
In the past week I have been dealing with the Chicago Public School administration about an alleged gun on a school bus. My children, ages 7 and 6 both take the bus to their elementary school.
Last Wednesday I was watching a TV program that showed a gun that was used in committing a murder, my son told me “that looks like the gun the boy had on the bus.” Needless to say I was in total shock and asked him the typical who, what and when questions. Both my children said they saw it “before we went to Disney World”, which was a month ago.
The following day, Thursday, I called the school at 8:45AM and told the receptionist the entire story. He proceeded to tell me that the assistant Principal is in a meeting and we are in the middle of testing, she will call you back. A few hours pass and I hear nothing so I called again and was told that they were in the middled of a fire drill, I gave her the message and she will call you back.
Needless to say I did not receive a call back. My children came home and asked them what happened and they said “we found the boy”, they told me that a CPS Security Guard removed them from their classrooms around 2:30-2:45PM to take them from classroom to classroom to point out the child with the gun. I was shocked and appalled that they would do that without contacting me. The Assistant Principal finally called me at 5:40PM, to tell me she talked to the boy and even though they found “play handcuffs” and the gun in question was “paper”. I repeatedly asked her why she did not call me back and she did not answer, she only stated “I did the best I could”.
I was called by another in the office and was then contacted by the Acting Director of Safety and Security for CPS. He requested a meeting with me on Friday, but I found it unnecessary to talk to him, my children were not the offenders, but rather the actions of the principal were what I was questioning. I also contacted all of the media and two news agencies pick up the story, ABC 7 ran it on Monday.
I have been in contact with the administration via email and phone and no one wants to say anything regarding the handling of the incident. They went as far as “terminating” a conversation with me when I said he did not listen to me in our previous conversation and did not respond to any emails sent to him and I told him I have no faith in the investigation.
I need help. I need to know if certain policy and procedures were followed properly. My children were paraded around from class to class to find an offender and I fear retribution buy the child or other students. I have all the emails I have ever sent to CPS as well as the news story, with CPS “official” response. I do not want another family to go through what we are going through.
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