I don’t think sueing or counseling is necessary, but I can see why they are taking it up a notch.
Our school district is very unresponsive. It’s very frustrating.
When our district closed our daughters’ school, we told the district that they would be losing more money by closing the school (it would cause kids to leave the district). We even tried to split our district over how bad out district is. We went to news, the state, etc. It didn’t work.
Our district is also horrible with special ed services. Lots of people are starting to sue our district to get services. We’ve thought about it. It just cost a lot of money to hire a lawyer, and you don’t know if you will win.
Schools are bad, and I think some parents are starting to revolt. Now, I think not educating kids is more worth the battle than getting a poor taste award.
Yes, by far academics are worth the battle, maybe even with lawyers, but I’d also submit that the ability of this kid to improve and learn has been shut down to a large degree by these teachers’ idiotic award and he deserves better than that.
Kids are merciless - they’ll never let the kid forget it unless he has a strong group of friends. Maybe he does - the article doesn’t say. But, if this serves to further isolate the kid from a positive relationship with his teachers and classmates I’d say his ability to thrive at this school is a lot lower than before.
So yes, as a parent I’d protest this award and ask for the school to publicly rebuke the teachers. Environment is important. I don’t mean that the kid shouldn’t suffer some knocks that are appropriate - I just don’t think the “not likely to have kids” was deserved. Would I hire a lawyer over this ? No.