HOw did I forget this? It was a one time comment, thank goodness! Oldest difficult child was in grade 5 and her teacher called me and complained about........um the 2 things on front of her body-I assume the censor will censor out the word, but ---you know those 2 things females have. out front. difficult children 5th grade teacher called me to tell me......(oh this was hysterical, well, it is hysterical now, but I was NOT amused back then) those are NOT allowed at school. Oh really? what do you suggest we do, cut them off? leave them home when she comes to school? Well, really Mrs difficult children mom, we are an elem school and we simply cannot have those here. Well really teacher what do you think I should do about them? Well mom, you should not permit them. HUH? they GREW there, how do I now permit them.....women have them....well mom, you should not encourage them. HUH? I DID not encourage them.....Mother Nature did that. or genetics, or something. She has a bra on, what else can I do, she has a baggy tshirt on, cuz she does not like those things there either......she IS trying to hide them......
well mom you have to DO something.
Uh yeah. Right. Like WHAT?
and my son, he would have partial seizures and to anyone seeing them he looked to be daydreaming...BUT school had much documentation from numerous psychiatrists and neurodocs that it was seizures.....but they still kept right on giving him detention.....for "daydreaming" and "ignoring" them.
Or at the start of this school year first day my son was at school one hour and they called to tell me I had to take him to ER cuz his eye looked funny. Um, well look at his IEP and his records, he has had 2 extensive reconstructive surgeries on the eye, no mom, we need a note from ER that it is not contagious......oh, is poking your eye out contagious? Mom, we NEED a note, no surgeon would leave an eye looking like this.
the next day PCs school called cuz easy child got stung by a bee, they said she is saying she is having trouble breathing, are you coming to get her? I ask- well IS she breathing? they reply- we don't know. I say well if she's NOT breathing call 9-1-1 .......well, they do not KNOW if she is breathing or not. Yikes.
Then---- ambulance took her to ER and ER gave her masive steroids....oxygen.....she felt better, she WANTED to go back to school, ER said that would be ok....I drive her back to school, sign her back in, she has a note from ER for them at school.... and they call me......they say.....Mom, we need to know if you are excusing her absence. otherwise we have to mark it down as a cut and it is $50 per class cut and suspension. Um, YOU called ambulance, YOU loaded her into ambulance, and you have the note from ER doctor.......Yes, but- it is unexcused if you do not TELL us it is excused. Will you excuse her absence from school for the time this morning?
Thank goodness those were all one time things.
Sometimes people say some of the weirdest things, and sometimes it does just drive me bonkers.
Yes, it is now a standing joke at our house- those things are not allowed------are you breathing?