By LOU ANTONELLI
Managing Editor
The parent of a Clarksville
High School junior is
appealing a ban from all school district campuses and locations in the wake of
a confrontation last Friday.
Missy Griffin,
parent of Chakyrah Griffin – a member of the girls’ varsity basketball team –
said she was banned by Supt. Pam Bryant.
For her part, Bryant declines to comment.
“Due to CISD policy regarding confidentiality, there is no
comment at this time,” she said.
Griffin
said she and another parent brought ten personal pizzas from Subway to the
cafetorium at lunch Friday for a group of students.
There had been a lot of drama on social media between the
girls” and we just wanted to get the ten kids all together,” she said.
The students all reconciled, she said, but then as she left
she was confronted by a teacher who had been a monitor in the cafetorium, who
complained she never put on a visitor’s badge.
Griffin said she didn’t think about it because her hands
were full with the pizza when she came in and nobody stopped her as she went
straight to the cafeteria.
She characterized the discussion with the teacher in the
high school office as “fussing with each other” and she didn’t think the
incident was serious, but later found out once at home that the police had been
called to the school.
She said she wasn’t arrested, but when she went to the
school administration later that afternoon Dr. Bryant said she was banned from
the CISD until the end of the school year, May 31st, before she had
a chance to explain her side of the story.
Griffin
said the ban is especially hurtful because her daughter is a starter on the
varsity girls team and she cannot attend any home girls’ basketball games.
Griffin
said she is requesting an appeal of the ban before the CISD Board of Trustees,
Why not ban the teacher that confronted her after she already walked through the doors, into the cafeteria and then leaving. That is being petty. Why are the doors not locked and cameras available to see who comes in? In this day and age, there needs to be security for the students. Had this been in place, this would not have been an issue. So would the teacher wait to approach a person walking in with a gun or wait to tell them they have to sign in first? Pick your battles.
ReplyDeleteSo, this teacher was in the cafetorium monitoring as the two parents walked in and gave out the pizzas. That was okay, they weren't stopped from doing that..only when they were leaving? Great monitoring there CISD!These are obviously parents that care and were there to help...and are probably known around school. Stupid decision! I think the monitor should be reprimanded!
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