:BRIGHTSTUFF:..Personal & Political Musings & Rants by a Liberal Leftist Black & Asian Teacher

My husband would be proud that I'm quoting Guided By Voices.

Anyway, this past Monday and Tuesday, I went to my monthly literacy workshops. During this time, a sub is hired for my class.

Apparently, the sub was late dismissing the class.

As a result, a parent came into the office to raise holy hell, curse my name, and called for me to get fired.

According to my colleague, she came in with guns blazing and went ballistic, yelling(paraphrased, of course), "FUCK that BITCH!!!! I'm sick of Ms. G-----! She needs to be fired! My son is promotion in doubt and she doesn't even give homework! I'm sick of this shit!"

Ahem.

Now mind you, I have probably seen this tacky piece of work about 3 times this whole year. I've never seen her on parent-teacher night.

One of the times she managed to haul her ignorant ass to school, she went to my supervisor complaining that I didn't give homework. She actually came to my classroom and accused me of this as her son sank into the depths of his desk, crying hysterically because he knew he was busted.

When I asked my students to tell her if I gave homework or not, the classroom was filled with a chorus of "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


After I sufficiently embarrassed her, she had the nerve to ask for the last report card (which, incidentally, has not been returned to date)that had been handed out nearly 2 months before.

Now get this. Her son is a sneaky behavior problem that lies constantly in my class, and did the same in first grade. Not only is he NOT on level and would definitely be a candidate for being held over (if they allowed it at my travesty of a school), but he's lazy as all hell and does little to no work.

This is what I deal with on a daily basis, folks.