“She [Angelicka Thompson] would tell me, well, [A] needs to understand the difference between ‘tattling’ and telling when there’s an actual problem,” said Black. “The whole dynamic between me and her took a left. She would send me emails every week with the things that were happening to [A] … what she failed to mention in the emails, is it was the same kid every time.”
The emails would contain examples of when A was “tattling,” suggesting that Black needed to teach him to ignore certain things like name-calling — to let it roll off his back.
Black says that while the incidents continued between her son and the other child, it was her son’s grades that were suffering, especially her son’s behavior chart. At that time, behavior charts were used as a weekly check-in for students.
