What Would You Have Done?

So yesterday I was covering for a kindergarten class all day when a student had told me 2 other students were passing notes of an innapropriate nature....so i take the notes which contained the words "sex" "yes" and "no" so immediately I'm like "WHOA RED FLAG" lemme call the guidance counselor so i did...but no answer....so it was towards the end of the day and im like someone higher up needs to know about this....so i call the office looking for the AP and shes not there i tell the aide well can you send her to my room when u find her....well another teacher (my mentor) came into my room (random i thought) and i see the AP i was looking for by her room....so i tell her hey tell Ms. X to come over here i need to ask her something....so shes comes over and i ask her well what should i do and she says take it up with the guidance counselor....i said well i couldnt reach her so i wanted to know what to do like should i tell parents afterschool etc?

so anyways i spoke to 1 parent after school and i went in and wrote a report (the guidnace counselor told me to do this when i finnally got to her) and im like ok all is well

THEN this morning the AP tells me well i think you should really be more wise about what you call me into your room for, you persisted to have me come in even after i sent your mentor in....(i didnt know the AP sent her cuz i wanted to talk to her) I was like ummmmk and she goes thats your mentor shes the one who can help you with things like that and thats why she was there.

all i thought to myself all day was like huh ***? i'm trying to communicate a sort of serious issue i think and somehow i got a stern talking to....i mean 5 yr olds shouldnt be writing notes that contain the word sex in it

i was really trying to figure out what do to as well as cover my butt in the situatation
ugh....

so really what would you have done?

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I would have done the same thing as you. You can never be too safe with these types of things. I think your AP is a b*tch!!!!

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i would have held onto the note and told the teacher when she came back. they weren't being physical with each other, and are only 5 so there isn't really a reason to take immediate action. nothing was going to happen with a note. i wouldn't have called for help from an administrator to take care of a note--regardless of content unless someone's life was at stake.

a sub should never talk to parents about ANY issue. it is the teacher's place.

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It's a shame the AP wasn't more supportive. You couldn't reach the guidance counselor and had no idea why your mentor came in - given that situation, and then seeing the person you'd been trying to get a hold of right there, I might've done the same thing when I was subbing. I wouldn't have spoken to the parent, but if teachers have suggested it to you, I can understand why you did. I guess lesson learned for next time - now you know how the AP handles things.

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