There is absolutely no excuse for the incident report filed by someone not in the classroom or to call you on the carpet without telling you what had happened.
A better course of action would have been to say 'there was an incident involving Mary Jane after she left your classroom, I see you didn't file an incident report, can please have one.'
A wider issue that I'd be interested in is how you (as in the school as a whole) balance the desire to not trigger your students with teaching them coping strategies? Because 'I am sorry, this upsets me, I need to leave the classroom for a while' sounds positive to me - walk away from the situation, gather yourself, cope. And since another adult followed, you couldn't have guessed what would happen.
(Much less could you have known that someone would get injured - that really was an accident. Horses spook at all kinds of things, riders fall and injure themselves or not, but it would be worth considering whether a) the horses can be gotten used to the sound of the fire alarm, and b) the alarm can be situated so that it will alert people without panicking the horses - because evacuating a barn full of panicking horses does *not* sound like a great idea. Now you know that when the alarm goes off, horses will be panicked by the alarm - that needs addressing.)
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Date: 2011-11-05 05:45 pm (UTC)There is absolutely no excuse for the incident report filed by someone not in the classroom or to call you on the carpet without telling you what had happened.
A better course of action would have been to say 'there was an incident involving Mary Jane after she left your classroom, I see you didn't file an incident report, can please have one.'
A wider issue that I'd be interested in is how you (as in the school as a whole) balance the desire to not trigger your students with teaching them coping strategies? Because 'I am sorry, this upsets me, I need to leave the classroom for a while' sounds positive to me - walk away from the situation, gather yourself, cope. And since another adult followed, you couldn't have guessed what would happen.
(Much less could you have known that someone would get injured - that really was an accident. Horses spook at all kinds of things, riders fall and injure themselves or not, but it would be worth considering whether a) the horses can be gotten used to the sound of the fire alarm, and b) the alarm can be situated so that it will alert people without panicking the horses - because evacuating a barn full of panicking horses does *not* sound like a great idea. Now you know that when the alarm goes off, horses will be panicked by the alarm - that needs addressing.)