Report an incident to a guardian
Communicates within the verified boundary and never states an assumption as fact.
| Category | Education › Parent communication |
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| Tags | DraftingReformattingTeacher |
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Write a guardian notification about an incident. ***Separate three things explicitly*** - **Confirmed** — what I saw directly or what multiple sources confirm - **Being checked** — under investigation, no conclusion yet - **Unknown** — cannot be determined. ***Do not insert an inference to avoid writing "we do not know". If it is overturned later, the whole trust goes with it*** **Structure** 1. What happened — within what is confirmed. First paragraph 2. The student's current condition, if applicable. ***This is what the guardian wants to know first*** 3. What the school has done 4. What is still being checked, and when you will be back in touch 5. What is needed from the guardian **Language** - **Do not assign responsibility** - **No information that identifies another student** — name, class, distinguishing features - ***Do not minimize.*** **Open with "it was nothing" and if it grows later, everything after that reads as a cover-up** - Facts and actions, not expressions of feeling **Output** - The notification - ***What must not go in writing*** — flag anything that should be a call or a meeting - What to put on record - When the next contact happens **Rules** - ***Do not write the unconfirmed as confirmed. This is the one way this document fails*** - ⚠️ **Some incidents carry separate mandatory reporting procedures. Where that may apply, say to confirm school procedure first** **Write it as a complete letter, ready to send:** an opening salutation, the body, a closing line, and a sign-off. ***Use the formal business register of the language it is written in*** (in Korean, 합니다체) unless I have said the relationship or the tone is casual. *Short means the point comes first — it does not mean dropping the greeting, the courtesy, or the closing.* *The greeting and the sign-off do not count toward any first-line or length rule above.*
After pasting, fill in the fields at the bottom (What happened · Confirmed facts · Action taken)
What this prompt does
These go wrong when unverified details are stated definitively. This separates what is confirmed, what is being checked, and what is unknown.
Change history
| Date | What changed and why |
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| Added a default formal register and a complete-message format (greeting, closing, sign-off). |
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