The aforementioned conference was very uneventful. It has gone like every other meeting with this parent. She is very diplomatic and even friendly to our faces. It is the aftershocks that are ugly. However at this conference there were so many other witnesses to her acquiescence. Life will go on as normal. Right now Joseph is going to a Mental Health day program for 6 weeks so most likely I will not see him again this year.
I have so much more sympathy for her at the moment with all the Cooper going ons. He is just having a hard first grade experience. And it seems that it will continue for the full year. Not only are we on the third teacher of the year for him, evidently his school is going to be cleaning up asbestos and remodeling their kitchen which will entail the whole school moving to another school for the latter part of the year. To be honest, this will be a little more stressful for the teachers rather than the kids but it will still be another change in the routine. They will have to be bussed to the new school after they arrive at their current location every day. It will be a nightmare. Looking back it seems that I should have decided to bring Cooper along with me to this school when I started but I wasn't aware of this final craziness at the time. And I didn't anticipate we would have to fire his second teacher of the year either. I made an uninformed decision.
Or maybe I still made the right decision. Maybe my principal wouldn't have liked me so much if I had come with baggage that has already visited his principal at least 5 times already. Holy Cow! I never had to deal with the principal with my first two children. Never, ever. This week he was given a soft chair in the principal's office for a playground incident. I have received a document stating that Cooper committed a severe physical aggression infraction. According to the document, he held a girl's coat so that she could not go down the slide. The document also states that the girl turned her head and bit him. I am still waiting to get a call from the principal telling me that my child was involved in an incident where his skin was broken by a human bite. Can somebody please send Destany this book?
Of course, I am also still waiting for a call from Ryan's principal as well. According to Ryan, she was told that her parents would have to be called when she was involved in a pantsing incident. She gave another student both hands high five while yet another student pulled the kid's pants down during gym. That kid was actually suspended. Ryan was just getting a phone call home but it is yet to come. Thank goodness! I don't mind the whole pantsing thing. It was done in good fun amongst friends but I am a little bit concerned of how cool Ryan would have thought she was actually getting suspended. For something that wasn't that bad. She still is a good kid.
Sigh. Even though I yelled at Chase this morning I love my kids to death.
