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Originally posted by Moses
Jim. Anytime you enter a meeting that will be adversarial, you need to think two steps ahead. You need to know precisely what position they are likely to take and how you will dismantle their position.
In this case, you know it's likely that they will back the teacher and claim that nothing inappropriate happened. As Superman suggests, you need to open this meeting by establishing that something inappropriate did happen. Then, you can spend the rest of the meeting discussing appropriate actions. It is far better to destroy their position before they begin to defend it. Before they become committed to the lie. If you can do that, you might have a very productive meeting.
You should also be able to give them a crystal clear list of reasonable remedies and your plans for escalation if they fail to comply.
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Re-read this. Isn't it sad that I have to approach the school in such a fashion, in a combative mode?