Thursday, January 11, 2007

Sleepy...
And I had coffee for lunch! How the hell does that happen? Ah, well. Been watching Gundam Wing since I got out of class (And seriously, Relena's not sane... calling for Heero to kill her... something's not right with that)... and finished searching the net for some information on teaching ethics and policies for telling a kid they're failing. And I'm going to all this trouble for my brother!
See, here's the thing. My baby bro isn't too bright, well, I mean, he has the potential, but he can't focus on anything for more than two seconds. It's like he could have the most complicated quantam physics problem going in his mind, and be on the verge of giving you the solution to that and limitless free energy, and he'd get interested in a freakin' butterfly and leave you there until you died, jumping from topic to topic. If you got that messed up example, I'm glad, and if not, he has ADHD. That's why he's so hyped all the time... and part of why he ticks me off; he stirs up trouble as a hobby. So anyway, one of his teachers said that if he made one more F on a paper, he would fail the fifth grade. Now that put the fear of something into him, because he's been working his little ass off trying to get good grades so he doesn't have to repeat the fifth grade. Well, yesterday, said teacher comes up to him, tells him he made an F on a fact or opinion paper (what's got me riled about that will be explained in a minute), and told him his 'Fate was sealed'. Now, this fact or opinion paper has been there since he found out he'd fail if he made another F. That's what brought the whole damn thing on, in fact! So why the hell didn't she say something before? And you don't tell a kid their fate is sealed. Kids can do some amazing shit if they want to! Plus, there has to be some proceedure to this. I mean, really! I would think the state would require you to send a letter saying "To the parents of little Bobby, your kid is failing the whatever grade and we'd like to have a conference to see if we can do something so your precious little baby doesn't get held back". Or at least give a phone call... but we haven't heard from the school at all! Not a peep but what my brother's bothered to tell us! So I've spent a lot of the morning trying to find something on the lawbooks about ethics in education or proceedure for notifying parents of scholastic difficulties or something! But my search turned up nada, zip, zero, so I'm going to scour the handbook when I get home to see if I can find some info.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily doing this because I like the brat atm. I'm doing this because if he fails, I have to hear him weep and wail and moan about how he doesn't want to have to get a new group of friends, and how he'll do better (because I don't believe him, I've seen it too many times), and I just don't think the way this has been handled is correct! See, this is part of why I couldn't be paid to go back to high school. This school is a public school, ergo there should be some laws it has to follow, and instead they act like they are above the law! Plus, it's like all the elementary/middle school teachers forgot to go to their 'teaching students with health issues' class. His kindergarten teacher would stir up trouble and then complain when she couldn't talk him down. Of course you can't talk the brat down, woman, he isn't reasonable when he's mad! Trust me, when a twelve-year-old kid has come after you with a freaking baseball bat a couple of times while you were fighting, you know they don't have reason when they're pissed! Also, they wanted to intimidate him. Most kids can be easily scared into doing what you want, right? Never tried it, but I've seen it. Well, this kid doesn't get scared that easy. He understands already that saying you'll do something is one thing, but actually having the guts to do it is another. And there was no way in hell they were going to make him panic.
So, yes, I'm tempted to go up there tomorrow, oral communications class at 9 be damned, and raise some hell, because I am not going to stand for this load of unmitigated crap! I apologize for my excessive use of profanity in this post, but god dammit, I'm having a tough week already and then they wanna start this bullshit?! I say BRING IT ON!
...Oh, yeah, and once again, Relena is one crazy chick. You don't just yell for someone who threatened to kill you to come kill you! Something's not right in that girl's mind... Back to Gundam Wing! Ja ne, minna-san! Please wish me luck! Solaris out!
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