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My son's teacher is starting to really tick me off, and we are only about 3 weeks into school. His teacher last year was strict and a hard grader, but she got Connor and really really cared about him.

This one.. aye...

The note was on his homework. They are writing a newspaper about themselves.  One of the stories is supposed to be a feature about something that happened to him. He may not excell in all subjects, (though so far this year all his grades are good) but he is an excellent writer. He has won awards and he is brilliantly descriptive. The child's vocabulary is stellar and impressive and he has a really good grasp on metaphores,similie, and hyperboles. His teacher does not.

His story was about a trip he took with the YMCA this summer to a laser tag place in Houston. He describes the hot bus and then writes the sentance, "The counselor let us out of the volcano."

She put this note on it so he could correct it when he edits it this weekend:

 

I felt like going Zell Miller on her. "Do you know what a METAPHER is?!" So I had him change it to a simili. Does she not get it or just thinks that a 10 year old cannot use a metaphor? This is gonna be fun. There are other things too.

They keep sending shit home for us to sign up for or buy. Maybe I haven't let everyone know, I am a special kind of broke right now. There was a thing to apply for your kid to recieve free lunch.

• I don't want it. I don't need it. I don't want to give you my financial information to get it.
• The lunches I send him with are a lot more filling and nutritious than the lunches the school serves and a lot less fat.

Apparently we had to sign it and send it back. So I wrote in big black marker, "I dont WANT this."

Last week they sent home something offering a Highlights magazine subscription at a discounted price. I may have missed it or something, but I didn't see anything that said, "Return this even if you don't want it."

Connor had this before, but this is a bit baby for him. He has 3 magazine subscriptions for children, Nickalodeon, Discover, and National Geogographic, and our house is filled with books. He walks around school with his face in a book. He is not lacking for reading material.

Anyway.. apparently they get some kind of prize for the class if they all return the form, ordering it or not. But I had thrown it away. He lost recess for 4 days this week until I wrote her an email telling her I threw it away not him and he should not be punished.

Screw her. I hope she suffered. I know what it is like to have a 10 year old with ADHD and no excersize outlet for the afternoon.

Then she writes in her email about how she has spent extra time with him this week on one day on one assignment because he was having trouble.

Their class is smaller than it has been the previous years because some of the kids have left the Dual language program (though I cannot imagine doing that in the last year). He is protected under law because of his disability and he is guarenteed reasonable occomedations under the law. Last year the school tried to fuck him until we bitch slapped them with the ADA. We have never asked for anything till then. We would help with the class on our days off, work really hard for him with his school work, back up the teacher, bring in extra supplies. I was never one of those obnoxious mothers that thought her child was an angel or wouldn't dicipline or participate. But when they try to screw him because it is work for them it pisses me off.

When we told some of them at his ARD last year, we told counselor, teacher, priciple, and literary development teacher he may not come back because we were possibly moving to Austin, they cried. They also cried when he showed up this year for another year with them. This is one awsome child. Everyone knows him and he is known for being funny and empathetic and helpful and loving. So when this cow wants some kind of fucking kudos because 2 days this week she took some extra time to help him with an area he was having trouble with, I am not feeling overwhelmingly grateful to her. She decided to be a teacher. We are grateful for that. We support our teachers. We support our school. I am not being terribly articulate right now, but I am pissy.

that is all.

Playing the Pit-o-phone

( Connor has been trying to learn how to play those awful noises on his armpit like cousins can. Today he was a bit more successful. He was so hilarious looking, frantically trumpeting away on his armpit with joyous abandon. I just thought I would share with y'all )

yoinked from thewordgirl

( meme behind cut. about shared interests )

because everyone else is.. and I am a sheep..Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Tell me 5 things you like about me. In return, put this in your journal to see what people like about you.

I snagged this from jsjeep4x4

 

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I was outside at the pool and this really cool badass bug flew up and landed on the bricks. I thought it was new.. but upon closer look, turns out to be young dragon flies mating.

redid this 'cause I messed up all the links. tee hee

I have nothing to talk about today, so I am going to post pics of what we did to our dining room in our apartment a couple of years ago.

The dining room was ugly and outdated, and quite frankly we do not have enough room for all our stuff and a dining room. So, as much as we would like to have family dinner together every night, we need the space for other things. The room is where we have two of our book shelves, Connor's desk, his table to eat at,and since we have done this, two more bookshelves. Most of his toys go in here, and there is a Harry Potter Painting and a poster from the Ally's production of Little Shop of Horrors. Con has seen that play twice and loves it.

( so...lots of photos here. I did my best to make them not too big. )

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( I was just noticing.... )