When you file a human rights complaint, and if it gets accepted, you will receive an email notifying you that your complaint is proceeding.
The school will get the email as well. This is the first time they will be contacted by the BC Human Rights Tribunal. They will have an opportunity to submit a “response” a few weeks later.
It will be multiple pages long, and they will be defending themselves. Listing all the reasons that your complaint is not true, or if it is true, their decision-making is justified.
Just a heads up. It is very difficult to read.
If you need to move heavy furniture, read this right before you have to do so, and you’ll be done in a jiffy.
Some of it will be downright ridiculous to you.
At some point early on in the response, you will see the sentence “We deny each and every allegation”.
I read that sentence, and I swear, something snapped and changed in me forever.
I didn’t know this at the time, but this gets sent to every single parent.
I have seen a lot of documents from parents across this country, and this type of sentence is in every single one. Even when they know they are guilty, it doesn’t matter. I would be shocked if this sentence didn’t show up in your response.
Now. I have some thoughts on this.
I am not sure how this sentence started or who thought this would be a good idea to send to people a long time ago, but sending this to an already irate parent is not the most intelligent thing to do. In fact, you are shooting yourself in the foot as far as I am concerned.
I can tell you that after my eyeballs reached the end of this sentence, I had decided that I was taking my case to a hearing. And, I stuck to it. If I ever needed to refill my gas tank, I just re-read this one line. I was refuelled and back in action.
What I read from that sentence was this:
“Dear Kim. You have been cordially invited to attend a hearing. We do hope you will attend. We look forward to the duel.”
And my response was
“Sounds splashing. I shall be there!”
If you want to pick a fight with a mama bear, please do send this to them. I wish you good luck. The blessings will rain down upon you.
For the parents reading this shit, just know, they have to write something. They certainly are not going to send a response that says…. “ummm yup, guilty, we actually did everything they said. We thought we would get away with it…. but gosh… I guess not. Guilty!”
They will take slices of “truth” and state them as they are the most relevant important facts known to humankind. Just because they are writing stuff down doesn’t mean it is true, doesn’t mean they have evidence to back up what they are saying and doesn’t mean their arguments are strong. They could be very legally weak. For example, “XXXXX passed the class.” Meanwhile, we all know it’s because you hired a tutor. You get the idea. Or “XXXXX never asked for ________.” Meanwhile, we know that they never asked for anything because they were terrified.
But that’s what they get paid the big bucks for. (Insert eye roll)
We run on anger.
Thanks for pissing me off. xoxo. That was an excellent strategy. Cheers!
I now read that sentence and crack up. I need it on a t-shirt. It’s incredible how different I feel about these things as I look back in time, years later. Lots of things are shifting as time moves along.
So, if it propels you forward, then awesome. Read it hundreds of times.
If it’s anxiety-producing, every single person gets it. It’s not personal. It’s just one of their standard, boring, meaningless sentences. Them denying things…. heavens to Betsy. Shocking. They just plunk it in.
