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Judge Grants Injunction Against Toki Middle School Student

School Staff Member Sought Injunction Against Eighth-Grader

Updated: 8:26 pm CDT April 25, 2008

A Dane County judge granted a one year injunction against a Toki Middle School student Friday, barring him from having any contact with a Toki Middle School female staff member.

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The Madison teacher's union MTI said it is the second time this year a harassment injunction has been issued against a Toki student to protect a staff member or teacher.

MTI Executive Director John Matthews said the Toki staffer had to go to court to get an injunction against an eighth-grader for an incident last week in which the eighth-grader grabbed her in a bear hug and picked her up, moving her before she fell.

"A woman was watching the detention room and the student decided he was going to take over and physically picked her up, turned her around and dropped her until she fell on the floor," Matthews said. "He didn't put her down on her feet but put her down in such a way that she fell on her butt and her back."

Matthews said the earlier incident occurred last fall and involved a student disregarding a staff member's order to stop pouring nail polish remover on a desk and the student then grabbing the staffer's ID name tag necklace, choking her by refusing to let go.

Meantime, officials said the school's behavior plan has been modified.

The principal of Toki Middle School, Nicole Schaeffer, said Toki's behavior plan has now been revised to include the district code of conduct for discipline and includes the latest district-wide positive behavior model called Positive Behavior Intervention Support, or PBIS.

Many Toki staff and parents have been waiting for a revised behavior plan ever since a packed PTO meeting last month. They complained officials weren't clearly addressing bad behavior and its penalties or consistently applying them.

Matthews said the school should clarify behavior standards at a school assembly for students and bring in two uniformed Madison police officers to get things back on track.

"Lay that out to all the students and then have consistent enforcement of that, and I think the uniformed police officers are needed to get the place under control," Matthews said.

Schaeffer said the revised behavior plan combines Toki's new "positive behavior matrix." Toki staff members are reviewing it, and the principal said after they give her feedback, she'll send it out to parents. That is expected to happen within two weeks.

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