Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Damn if I did not get lost in the shuffle again, if that is the right analogy to be using for this situation.

A parent of a student who got suspended for two days for going to school drunk showed up earlier.

She went straight to the office of the dean, because the sanction served to the student was from the dean.

But the dean had a meeting, so it really should have been the officer for the welfare of the students to talk to her.

He is, after all, the head of the board of discipline for the college. But, it turns out, he was also not present.

So I was being asked to meet her in their stead, even though I did not want it to. We, after all, want to already follow the correct protocol that the board recommends to the dean and the dean applies the sanction.

So it is the dean who should meet with the parent. If the dean is unavailable at the time, then they should make an appointment before storming the school as they usually do, although the visitor earlier did not storm.

Of course this begs the question as to who will be able to present the evidence of the case to the parent.

So that means next line of quote-defense-unquote really has to be the officer of welfare, who has all the documents.

The parent does not have the right to face the members of the board and individually grill them on their decision.

There also should be a clear way to tell apart the parents who just want things clarified and those who are aiming for an appeal.

Of course for major cases, unlike this relatively minor matter of a girl going to school so drunk she passed out on the floor of the student lounge and admitted to the secretary that she was hammered, then the parents should be informed of the process from the start, but cautioned that they cannot act as the lawyer of the student when being interrogated. Student rights also say they can be present though.

It is also funny in a way that despite all our precautions, it appears that this is one aspect of the cases we have not thought of.

I immediately sent an email to the dean and the officer of welfare about it, and now it is into the technicalities.

Should it be registered mail? If so it is also still possible for the child to intercept the letter and suppress the news.

Can the parents via their contact numbers given to the office of the registrar be called? Who calls the parents?

I bet the officer of welfare would beg off against that job again, despite the logic.

Thankfully we have the experience of several other campuses around us to be able to consult about this.

Session 2883 is tempted to want to wash hands of all this. Class dismissed.