nvts
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Hi! All of the little darlings who are constantly the focus of my life went back to school today after a week of mid-winter break. I was sooo sorry to see them get on the bus (ok, so I was doing a jig in the front yard...St. Patricks Day is only 3 weeks away...I have a good excuse!).
I went to a meeting today to listen to a gentleman speak about a Charter School that they are going to start in Sept. 2009. A bulletin went out all over the island to ask parents of 4th graders to attend if they were interested. The charter school is going to be from 6th to 12th grade for kids who are academically capable of a College Prep program, but their behavior is preventing them from performing to their potential.
Sounds great, right?
Ok, stay with me. This is the part where I was evil.
This gentleman is trying to discuss this with the 10, yes I said 10 people who showed up when this obnoxious, know it all, pain in the pants woman shows up (late!) and starts cross-examining him about EVERYTHING!!! We hadn't even gotten a potential location out of this guy and she starts ripping him a new one!!!
The 10 polite people are sitting and watching this nightmare (she's got a reputation for doing this!) attack this guy about everything he's said so far.
He tried to politely defend himself explaining that this was a simple "hey this is what we've tried to put together and we need to check to see if there's enough interest" type of meeting and that he'd gladly discuss her questions after the meeting.
She's one of those loud mouths that speaks to show how "smart" she is.
Well, everyone is getting more and more uncomfortable and more and more annoyed at this "hijacking" of the meeting.
I confess: I lost my patience.
I calmly said "Excuse me. But my time as well as these other people's time, is limited. Would you kindly let this gentleman speak so that we can get the information that WE came to get". She started going off about "methodology" and then started throwing around 10 dollar words, names of curriculums, the New England Journal of Academia, and I lost it.
I calmly said "Excuse me. But we're all very proud of the fact that you know so much more than we do, but again...we'd like to know about some of the more pertinent things to us and our children, you know, important like "North Shore or South" while spinning back around to the gentleman in a "you're dismissed" type of gesture toward the evil woman.
I must say the applause were greatly appreciated! As it turns out, one of the people there was a woman that I interviewed with 2 years ago for a job that they lost the funding for. She asked me if it was ok to keep my resume since they might have funding at the end of the year!
So to recap:
In one day I managed to: get my kids off to school after a week's vacation, get one of the most feared women in Special Education to shut her yap (which according to 3 of the attendees that they've NEVER seen her do!), and possibly land a job at the end of the year.
Smokin'!!! lol!
Beth
I went to a meeting today to listen to a gentleman speak about a Charter School that they are going to start in Sept. 2009. A bulletin went out all over the island to ask parents of 4th graders to attend if they were interested. The charter school is going to be from 6th to 12th grade for kids who are academically capable of a College Prep program, but their behavior is preventing them from performing to their potential.
Sounds great, right?
Ok, stay with me. This is the part where I was evil.
This gentleman is trying to discuss this with the 10, yes I said 10 people who showed up when this obnoxious, know it all, pain in the pants woman shows up (late!) and starts cross-examining him about EVERYTHING!!! We hadn't even gotten a potential location out of this guy and she starts ripping him a new one!!!
The 10 polite people are sitting and watching this nightmare (she's got a reputation for doing this!) attack this guy about everything he's said so far.
He tried to politely defend himself explaining that this was a simple "hey this is what we've tried to put together and we need to check to see if there's enough interest" type of meeting and that he'd gladly discuss her questions after the meeting.
She's one of those loud mouths that speaks to show how "smart" she is.
Well, everyone is getting more and more uncomfortable and more and more annoyed at this "hijacking" of the meeting.
I confess: I lost my patience.
I calmly said "Excuse me. But my time as well as these other people's time, is limited. Would you kindly let this gentleman speak so that we can get the information that WE came to get". She started going off about "methodology" and then started throwing around 10 dollar words, names of curriculums, the New England Journal of Academia, and I lost it.
I calmly said "Excuse me. But we're all very proud of the fact that you know so much more than we do, but again...we'd like to know about some of the more pertinent things to us and our children, you know, important like "North Shore or South" while spinning back around to the gentleman in a "you're dismissed" type of gesture toward the evil woman.
I must say the applause were greatly appreciated! As it turns out, one of the people there was a woman that I interviewed with 2 years ago for a job that they lost the funding for. She asked me if it was ok to keep my resume since they might have funding at the end of the year!
So to recap:
In one day I managed to: get my kids off to school after a week's vacation, get one of the most feared women in Special Education to shut her yap (which according to 3 of the attendees that they've NEVER seen her do!), and possibly land a job at the end of the year.
Smokin'!!! lol!
Beth