What a week.
High: First day of school
Low: Concerned about Emma's teacher & classroom
High: Amazing success with Komen Race Team including 2 local paper articles, $7k in funds, great karma.
Low: Sarah Palin
High: Rally myself to confront the school on the classroom placement.
Low: Principal is condescending, insecure, and unprofessional.
High: Push forward with teacher placement concerns.
Low: Principal attacks me like Sarah Palin hunting wolves from an airplane.
High: Emma gets reassigned to a new classroom, the classroom we thought would fit her best.
Low: Principal throws a major tantrum to convince me that she is right and I am wrong, despite the fact that her argument is 100% personal and 0% substantive. I, the parent, am simply wrong. And she is simply right. Because she said so. Holy crap, does Sarah Palin have a twin? Has there been a "content optional" revolution that nobody told me about?
Low: Pete lost a close friend and classmate, the Coast Guard lost a top-notch pilot, and a family lost a father and husband.
And suddenly, all the other crap seems so ephemeral.
Except the Sarah Palin stuff. I mean, seriously. A redneck Creationist who likes snowmobiling, high school hockey, and indiscriminate procreation? Who is unapologetically unqualified, who doesn't understand the difference between rhetoric and policy, who thinks people who write books or aspire to Ivy League education are somehow universally disingenuous and elitist? Sarah, I am sure you don't stray far from GodToldUsToInvadeIraq.com, but should you stumble across this blog I apologize if you need a thesaurus. It's the dusty tome on the shelf next to the unread "101 Classy Baby Names" book.
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2 comments:
Holla!
I'm glad to hear Emma got into the classroom of your choice. Good work out of you.
How do you really feel about Sarah? haha...
You rocked it at school and I am proud of ya for not backing down.
Again, so sorry about Pete's friend. Just horribe.
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