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Is This Passive Aggressive?

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Dear Teacher,

From the end of March to the beginning of May we are dealing with:

A kid on medication
Forms that MUST be done in person, because God knows a doctor’s office can’t deal with email, .pdf’s, or even a fax
3 birthdays, and one anniversary
all with no money considering my husband hasn’t worked in almost 14 months
a cold sweeping through the family
maintaining current clients, while gaining new ones
because that’s what’s keeping us in groceries while the unemployment keeps rent and electricity paid
while keeping sane during two separate spring breaks in two separate school districts who of COURSE can’t happen at the same time
while my dad just wanders through my house at odd times asking my husband to play online poker, planting tomatoes that he wants ME to take care of
while the plumbing implodes every other week
while making the decision whether my mother needs to go to the hospital
while helping my mother maintain through a failing memory and what I suspect are mini strokes
while volunteering for hours for your school
while my husband takes tests
that I have to quiz him on which SUSPECT is the right one to SHOOT
All while I maintain control in the household by paying bills, doing laundry, doing dishes, cleaning the house, keeping the children clean, fed, and alive.

So pardon me if the mother-effing report on the great white shark was effing late. He’s 7. Get over it.

New Role, School Bouncer

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At our local elementary school, where Logan attends, we’ve been having serious carline issues.  Since being out of work, Poe has taken over the dropoff and pickup for me.  He was coming home increasingly angry at the other parents doing stupid stuff, against the “rules” stuff, illegal stuff, and flat out dangerous stuff.  Examples:  Parking across the street, and then having their kids come to them, between the cars in the carline AND jaywalking alone (6 years old) to boot.  Pulling u-turns straight out of the line.  Parking in local residents’ driveways.  Parking in the red.  Blocking fire hydrants.  Double parking in the middle of the street.  It got to the point that he starting documenting on his cel phone.

Because of our frequent meetings with the principal for Joseph’s IEP’s (this was prior to his switching schools,) Poe was able to bring up his issues with the whole thing.  The school is a little at a loss as to how to really fix it.  They are already participants of the Calico program – a Sheriff’s program that trains parent volunteers to help the line move faster and safer.  Finally they decided to publish a rather harsh letter in the school newsletter (I’m the editor,) and bring in the Sheriffs.  And up the parental volunteer muscle.  So they brought in Poe, a former marine, who’s mad at what the other parents are doing.  So each day, at least while he’s out of work (still?!) Poe will hang out at the school, help kids get out and in the cars, holler at stupid parents, and if they don’t listen take their license numbers and pictures for the Sheriff.  He got trained by the Sheriffs this morning (yes, it’s that serious.)

These parents are impatient, and think that they have more important things to do than the rest of the parents do.  As a result they put all our kids in danger.  If it were just a matter of being rude, that’d be different.  But a little girl was killed near here not all that long ago for the same reasons.  Time to put a stop to it – Poe stepped up to the plate.  This should get interesting.

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