Quote Originally Posted by torontokids View Post
I spoke to my daughter last night and the whole situation was totally blowed out of proportion by the VP. My daughter is 4 and doesn't even know what choking is (except in reference to "don't put so much food in your mouth or you'll choke." The VP said my daughter "instigated a choking game" and how she is very concerned about my daughter and her behaviour. The choking confused me to begin with as she doesn't know what that is and the suggestion that this was malicious was the other confusing aspect. Basically what happened was they were playing a game where she and 3 other girls chased this boy to "take his powers" away. My daughter grabbed his neck, he fell and they pushed on his neck. There was no intent to hurt him.

She made my daughter out to be very concerning and was questioning where she would have learned about a "choking game" from. So annoyed.
That would have me very annoyed. How about documenting fact, not assumptions or ones impression. What a shocking accusation to make against your daughter when the explanation you followed up with makes so much more sense. Okay rough play isn't okay because things like this can occur, but this is innocent and normal child behaviour that just unfortunately ended up with them falling in such a way on the boy. I honestly can't believe this even warranted a call home unless the child was actually hurt and it was just to inform you of what actually happened as a way of following up and following protocol, versus calling to make something out of nothing, put words into your child's mouth and imply that your 4 year old is wild and out of control, which is how I would have received the VP's comments had she said those things to me about my child. I'd be following up with the Principal if I were you on how the whole thing was handled, but unfortunately I do find that whenever I have a concern with a teacher's actions, the principal tends to always have the teachers back making excuses and passing the blame.