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Whispering Palms principal seeks restraining order vs. parent By MAR-VIC CAGURANGAN Staff Reporter
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Posted on Oct 25 1999
The principal of Whispering Palms School asked the Superior Court on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order that would prohibit a student’s parent “from coming anywhere near” the school or her house.
Marion E. Weindl told the court that her earlier confrontations with Steve Haig, father of one of her students, have given her “an overwhelming feeling of fear.”
Weindl said Haig was infuriated when she called to inform him last Oct. 15 that his daughter, along with other seventh and eighth grade students, had to attend an after-school remedial class to work on their unfinished school assignments. Haig had refused to allow his daughter to remain in school after her last class.
Weindl said that when Haig arrived at the school to pick up his daughter later that day, he verbally abused her, “making a number of insulting and disparaging comments in the presence of other students.”
Despite her appeal for him to leave the classroom, Weindl said, Haig “continued to make demeaning comments.”
Weindl then told Haig to take all his daughters’ belongings from the locker and not to return to the school again.
He came back to the school on Oct. 18. Despite Weindl’s request for him to leave, Haig refused to do so, prompting her to lock the door to protect the students inside the classroom.
But Haig tried to force himself into the classroom by ramming the door.
“While I was partly through the door, defendants forcefully and repeatedly rammed the door with his body (the door opens outward) causing injury to my arm and body which were caught between the door and the building,” Weindl narrated in her complaint.
Weindl’s attorney Joseph Arriola said the police are now investigating the matter and that his client has informed the police of her intention to file criminal charges against Haig.
“The confrontations have left plaintiff an overwhelming feeling of fear and she remains very fearful of defendants and what he may do to her, her family, the students or the school in general,” Arriola stated in the complaint.
He is asking the court to order Haig to stay at least 200 yards away from Whispering Palms and Wiendl’s house.
