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"If he does fail, you didn't do your job."

Those things were said to me near the end of the 3rd quarter. Jonah and his sister had transferred in a couple of months prior from another school. I found out later the pattern was that Dad would get pissed at a school and then move the kids.

Jonah had an IEP. Jonah also missed at least two days a week at school. I told Dad that his attendance and lack of effort in class were why he was failing, and that's when he told me about how it was my fault and he can't fail because of IEP. He also tried to argue about attendance and how it wasn't an issue. I told him IEPs don't work that way and he stopped responding to my messages after that.

Jonah finished up with something like a 19% in my class, his sister at least failed with something in the 50% range. I thought Dad might flip out, but he never said anything to anyone. He was just trying to bully me.

Some of these parents are just nuts.

He looks like an idiot, so I'm not shocked.

No matter where I build it, it says it isn't connected to a district center. Yes it is. Anyone have an idea what the issue is?

EDIT: Solved. Thanks everyone.

I'm playing now, and women are joining my court and becoming captains. As a Norse ruler, I should be able to make them Shieldmaidens if they are in my service as Captains.

This was back in December, but I just remembered. I know we live in a digital age and all that, but am I that silly to assume kids should understand a magazine?

I was out a lot this year on FMLA for both myself and my parents. One day I left some science magazines (the kind written for kids) that had just come in. They had to find three articles, read them, and answer some questions. They had their choice of what articles to write about. Simple, no?

No.

I came back to find 90% of them weren't done at all. They didn't know what a magazine was, or how it worked. They couldn't find the author name, the title, or even where each article started and ended. I had stupidly assumed they could all handle a magazine. Most of them were treating it like it was a single, flimsy book or something, and getting confused when it didn't make sense.

We spent time when I returned going over what a magazine was and how to properly read one. I'll make sure next year to provide explicit instruction on it.

EDIT: Sixth grade, a mixture of advanced and regular, and an edit for clarity.

This actually happened well over a decade ago.

I went and did the grocery shipping that day after work. I come home, hot and tired, and go into my home office. My two sons, around 14 and 9, carried in the food. My wife put it all away, then started dinner. Because I had done the shopping, she didn't notice anything was missing. She didn't check the car to make sure it was all carried in when she locked it up. I didn't go out and check either. So I guess we both fucked up.

The boys left $70 worth of pork and other meat in two stuffed bags out there. They were just inattentive and didn't notice them with the few things that stay in the back of the car. This was a Friday after work, and I didn't get back in that car until Monday morning.

The car smelled like death. I almost puked, but got out and started carefully looking around. I found the two bags of rotten meat fairly quickly, then proceeded to have a damn fit. I was mad at the boys, but myself and my wife too. All of us should have done better here. Besides the smell, I was on a tight budget back then as we were climbing out of a bad hole, and that meat was several nights of meals for us. We got a bottle of air freshener from the house and emptied it into the car. I drove to work with my windows down, and parked at the far end of the lot with the windows down. After work, I bought a bunch of baking soda and applied it liberally - the car was coated in it. It looked like a kilo of coke exploded in there.

I would clean that up each day, then re-apply baking soda. Driving to work every day in Florida with all four windows down in this heat and humidity was almost as bad as the smell. It took two months before I could no longer smell it, and every few weeks after that I could swear I could still smell it a tiny bit. At least now we are super paranoid about checking every nook and cranny after coming home with food and comparing it to the list we used to shop with.

TL;DR: Kids left groceries in car, we didn't check, car smelled like death days later.

EDIT: For those asking about the division of labor - My wife is a SAHM by her choice. I work, pay the bills, do the shopping. The boys have always brought in the groceries with no problems. She puts them away, then she checks to make sure the boys didn't forget anything. It's just the way we have always done it. shrug

After over two decades, I thought I had seen it all with substitutes.

Our school has a new rule this year about phones. Kids are to have them turned off and put away. They have been great about it – I’ve only had to confiscate two phones this year. Also – our discipline numbers are better, as kids aren’t organizing fights over text message during the day and such. No stupid bags to lock them up in or anything - we expect them to follow the rules and issue consequences when they don't. Making the parents come pick them up if they are confiscated is working. Anyway...

Today, two of my girls were very late to my class. When they got here, I asked them what was up, then confirmed their story later with the dean. They had a sub today in math class prior to my class. The sub thought they were hiding a phone in their laps, and told them to “open their legs so he could look.” These are two 12-year-old girls we are talking about. Even if they were 18-year-old seniors it wouldn’t be appropriate. Knowing these two, they probably did have their phones, but still – that is so wildly inappropriate.

So when they got to class and were telling me this, I see one of them is visibly upset. “Are you OK? Do you feel safe in here? Can I do anything for you?” She said she was OK, and the girls sat and did their work. I know the administration and guidance is on this, so I’ll let them deal with it. I don't care if those girls were hiding anything or what it might have been. How stupid can you be?

This clown is likely going to be fired, and deservedly so in my opinion. With that, imma have a drink – it’s been a long week and we have 8 school days left.

The best Teacher Appreciation Week gift. Two of my students are twins, and they have chickens. All of their teachers got a dozen fresh eggs today. Best gift ever in my 23 years. They are sweet girls too, I'm going to miss them next year.

It beats the hell out of the cereal and granola bar layout we got from admin. I wish I was kidding. Yesterday was doughnuts. Talk about a lack of imagination.