Last Week's Entry...

Jun 01, 2006 12:20

Busy busy busy...

I was asked to be guest speaker at a TAFE graduation night for Auslan students, chosen because my old teachers thought I was a "successful graduate" & would be "motivational & an inspiration" for their students :)) I was chuffed :))

My speech went for 20 minutes & I had an interpreter, would love to watch it back on video to see the interpretation! I don't think I've ever been interpreted for before. It went really well - it was rather official, & lots of students had wonderful things to say about it afterwards, and so did the Heads of Faculty etc. It was heaps FANCY as Viv would say & I even got an *exquisite* bunch of flowers at the end!!

At the end of last term after 10 weeks of constant bullying (though he's not the only one) I pulled out the big guns & went to the Principal & demanded she move Tyler into another Kindy class. As we had had several meetings prior to this point she could do not much more than accede to my wishes... Being anally retentive means I like details & records & I had pulled a few lists on her in that first term, having documented the abuses that began from day one and were ridiculously common. There are 4 main bullies and Tyler had all of them in his class. The teacher was also a halfwit and I'd had enough. As I was one of only a few parents willing to formally complain, & then put my foot down, I got what I wanted. Every other parent now is bloody spewing that Ty got moved & their kids are stuck with Jesse, the most prolific of the 4. That's the up side. The down side is I am now known amongst all the staff as being one of THOSE parents. I get snide looks, snide comments even, I volunteered at the Athletics Carnival last Friday & was completely taken aback that from the moment I arrived EVERY SINGLE F'ING TEACHER knew my name - & were somewhat rude about it. One teacher I've never even seen before in my life.

The other down side is that Ty feels a bit lost without his usual mates & is taking a bit of time to get used to being in another class, for the first time in his life last week, after another bullying incident (this one that I witnessed at lunch time, where he walked up to one of the 4, said Hi Nicholas & got punched in the stomach so hard he doubled over), he cried when I had to leave the school & I had to leave him crying. Never happens. God it was awful I bawled for about an hour. The look on his face when Little Shit hit him was so awful I nearly took to the kid myself. It was more the shock, & the disbelief... he considers this kid his friend. It was fucking awful. Then I had to leave him not long after & that's when he cried.. poor baby. So that's pretty nasty & has been a massive stress for me since the year started. Seriously if I told you what goes on in that school you wouldn't believe me. Unheard of bullying for Kindergarten... blood, bruises, flying chairs, you name it. Some kids are starting to wet the bed again, it's that bad. Yet I'M the one who's stigmatised for 'dobbing'!! >:(

Ahhh what else... Lauren has been calling a lot lately. And planning to visit, but then she doesn't... about 5 times in the last 2 weeks. Then on Tues, Tyler had a Pupil Free Day, & mum offered to take him for the day. But then she had to help some friends out, & THEN she needed me to help HER help her friends out, so I ended up staying at hers on Monday night so I could babysit for her the next day. Of course, it was on this particular morning that I get a phonecall from Lauren, at 8am, sounding desperate, standing on my doorstep in Wattle Grove in the piss down rain saying she needed to 'talk.' Here's me, stuck in fucking freezing Bowral over an hour away, babysitting a nearly 4 yr old with ADHD, dummies & a shitty nappy. (yes, nappy.) Of all fucking days. Gone were the visions of us taking Ty to school, & coming home to sit in front of the fire with hot coffee & warm hugs having a D & M... gooooooooone I tell you!! Could have kicked something (preferably the child lol). I guess God clearly designed it to be that way... no other day of the YEAR would she come over in the middle of the week at 8:00 in the morning & I wouldn't be there. NONE!!!!!! NONE!!!!!

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