The Full Week
This is the first week of the second nine weeks. Unfortunately, this is one of the weeks where I have to be there for 5 full days. Sad isn't it? I'm so used to inservices, and holidays, that this week I have to be there for five years and it's freaking me out. Haha. That's a joke.So yesterday I had a student who was very out of dress code. We have a very strict dress code at the school where I work. So when this little boy came out of dress code, I immediately called his mom. She got upset that I "interrupted my instructional time" to bother her about her son's clothing. She said she would make a note of the dress code and she wouldn't send him in his out of dress code shirt again. Which sounded great, but unfortunately, we don't allow the students to stay at school if they are out of dress code.
I informed his mother that she either had to come bring him a dress code shirt, or she had to pick him up and take him home. She told me she didn't have the time. Sigh. At that point we have to call family services to come pick up the child, which then puts that family in the system for neglecting to follow the school's regulations. She, of course, thought that was insane and feels like our dress code is a total waste of time and she was tired of it. She would no longer adhere to the dress code.
I'm just a lowly teacher. I have no control over the dress code. So I then tell her that if she is unable to bring a change of clothing for her child, she would be hearing from the principal, and I promptly got off the phone. I called the boss lady and let her know what was coming, then went about my day. Haha, mine turned out to be a bit better than the principal's day.
The mother of this non-dress-code-child showed up at the school. She ripped into the principal tell him how responsible the school is because we are making the dress code a priority over education. She called the principal a (caution, this may offend) "bitch" more than once, then took her child home.
This is the woman who felt that it was more important for her child to stay at school all day in leiu of taking him home or even bringing him a new shirt. Keep in mind she said she didn't have the time to bring him a change of clothes. She had to go to work. However, she had enough time to come in, chew out the principal, and take her child out of the school. Had she simply not allowed her child to come out of dress code in the first place, none of this would have happened. So what do we do now? sigh.
It's raining again. Before I left today, my ceiling was already leaking. I'm frightened for tomorrow.
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