Grrrrrr................

Today I had a parent call in to complain about me to the principal because I wouldn't let her (disrespectful, lying) daughter (I'll call her "Rude Girl") go to the Halloween Dance. I called her and she asked if we could meet after school. I said yes and suggested that she bring "Rude Girl" with her. She agreed to this and then showed up at 3:30pm but her daughter was nowhere to be found. She figured her daughter left.

We spoke for about 25 minutes when when another student came into my classroom to ask me a question. When the student saw the girl's mother she mentioned that "Rude Girl" was downstairs. Mom asked where and the girl told her she was at the dance. The mother said, "Oh, she's in the office..." and then stood up to leave. The girl repeated "No, she's in the dance."

#@*% - I went downstairs and had another teacher haul her out of the dance. I asked her why she was there and she said "I forgot". This girl knew perfectly well she wasn't supposed to be there. You know what I think?! I think that mom was sent in as a diversion so that her precious "Rude Girl" could go to the dance! Either I am paranoid or these parents are worse than their rude and incredibly disrespectful children. - Hmmm....they must have learned the behaviour somewhere!!!!

Welcome to the daily 'stuff' we as teachers are forced to deal with!