Yesterday afternoon around 3:30 I get a call on my cell from the assistant principal at my daughter's school (the guy in charge of discipline)
"Uh hi, Mrs. Mann, this is Mr. Whateverthehellhisnameis from ...school"
"Yes, is there a problem?"
"Uh, well,, um, have you spoken to Debby this afternnoon?"
"Do you mean Victoria?"
"Oh, yeah, uh oh, you're Debra, Debby, uh, Mrs. Mann, uh sorry yeah, um well do you know where she is?"
Of course at this point my heart stops beating but I somehow manage to say
"She was supposed to go to the All County Chorus rehearal with the music teacher and the other five students at the beginning of 9th period, she was supposed to be bussed there..is she not with them?
"OH! Um, well that explains it, a teacher saw her walking out of the school at the beginning of ninth period so I guess that's where she was going"
"Wait a minute, a teacher saw her walking out of the school an hour and half ago, didn't stop her to find out where she was going and you are just calling me NOW? She could be dead!" (we have a had a recent string of child , well girls in ithe Vixters age bracket) going mssing inthe past few months and news of a local motel that has been filled by the local authorities with child molesters recently realeased from prison)
"Uh, yeah, I'll call you back"
Five minutes later the phone rang again Good ol' Mr. Imncompetent again
"I reached the music teacher on her cell ohone and Victoria is there at the rehearsal."
"So my child is exacly where she is supposed to be doing what she is supposed to be doing. I want to know why the teacher that saw her leaving didn't stop her and ask her where she was going . Why wasn't the office immediately notified? Why wasn't I immediately notified? Why don't you know that she was being bussed out of the district with one of your teachers on one of your busses? Did anyone speak to her 9th period teacher? He knew where she was because she had to rearrange taking an exam that was being given today. What is the purpose of this call? Are you just trying to get my daughter in trouble with me? It certainly doesn;t seem like your primary consideration here was her safety"
"Oh, um well yeah I have to apologize for alarming you, uh, well I don't know if there was a list about the chorus thing and uh, I just got the message from the teacher and uh, um well I guess we have some tightening up to do here...."
MORON!! Sitting there on his corpulant backside all smug and self satisfied playing "gotcha" with the kids....OOOOH I wanna slap his face!
K - 5 was all about building the kids self esteem and teaching them to love learning. But this middle school!!! It seems all about catching the kids doing something wrong and teaching them to loath school