Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Virginia

The principal at a local high school who my cousin's 14 year old attends called me and told me that I could no longer come to the school unless he was present. I keep the boy and I have to help him with his homework. He is struggling in Algebra and I asked his legal guardian if I could talk to the teacher. She said I could. I made an appointment. I called the county Director of Instruction and asked a general question about any alternative help he could get. She asked if I was the legal guardian and when I told her I wasn't she got very nasty. She said that I could have a confernece call with the guardian and principal. I told her that I needed to just talk to the teacher and would it be alright if the legal guardian were available by phone. She said yes. I went to the school after making sure that the legal guardian would be available and was told by the guidance councellor that the meeting had been cancelled and that central office had told them not to talk to me. I then went into the office and asked a question that the legal guardian has asked me to ask. She wanted the principal to clarify to the 9th grader's that they could not bring 8th grade middle schoolers to the dance, because the boy and some of his friends thought that they could bring their girlfriends. Eighth graders can't come to high school dances, but non-students up to the age 20 can come with the permission of the principal. I then left. I got a phone call the next day from the principal and he was yelling at me with a threatening voice. He said that I was never to come to the school unless he was there. He said that the guidance councellor and the secretaries said that I had acted inappropriately. I didn't do anything wrong. The boy's legal guardian can't understand either. I called the Director of Instruction and she said that she never said that I could meet with the teacher. But when the child's legal guardian talked to the principal, he said that she had called him and said that I couldn't meet with the teacher and that she would call me. I don't know what to do. I don't know who to trust. I am afraid to call the Superintendent of Schools or the local school board, because I don't know what they might do. I have not been told what I said or did. The principal wouldn't tell me, nor would he tell the child's legal guardian. This had me so upset. The legal guardian works second shift and I am all he has to help him sometimes. I really have no idea what I did, but both the legal guardian and myselt noticed that the principal got really irrated when the subject of the dance came up. I want to clear my name, but I don't know how to.

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