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Parent tells Anson County board she was not notified of student incident and objects to ChatGPT‑style SEL plan
Summary
During public comment a parent said she was not notified promptly about an April 1 incident involving her child, described the subsequent individualized plan as a copy of a ChatGPT prompt and said she felt ‘mishandled, insulted, and intimidated’; the board directed staff to refer the matter to the superintendent for follow‑up.
At the public‑comment portion of the Anson County Board of Education meeting, parent Sheena Kendall accused school staff of mishandling an April 1 incident involving her child and criticized the individualized support the school provided.
Kendall told the board she was not notified the morning of the incident — which her son said occurred around 9:10 a.m. — until about 1:45 p.m. She said the principal’s designee initially called and she was later told to return the next day to speak with the principal. “I feel like that was mishandling,” Kendall said, citing delay and lack of direct communication.
Kendall also described the individualized plan the school proposed for her child as being copied from an artificial‑intelligence output. “When I received this plan, it was a 5 second prompt for chat g p t that not even got changed,” she said, and added that the plan was presented to her as an SEL (social‑emotional learning) plan though she did not view her child as the problem in the incident.
Board members did not debate the specifics during public comment; a board member told Kendall to notify the superintendent and staff said they would direct follow‑up conversations to the superintendent (SEG 268–270). The board’s stated practice is not to respond to public comment on the spot while allowing the superintendent an opportunity to investigate and advise the board if legal counsel review is warranted (SEG 129–133).
The transcript does not record any immediate administrative response that addressed Kendall’s specific allegations about notification timing or the source and authorship of the SEL plan. The matter, as described by Kendall, remains unresolved in the meeting record and will be subject to superintendent follow‑up.
