if you would...

My family needs all the thoughts/prayers as possible. Here is a little run down on my mom. A couple years ago she was diagnosed with having a tumor on her pituitary gland, she also had sleep apnea. All her organs were enlarged, as well as her tongue, waist, feet, hands etc. She has been traveling back and forth to Charlottesville Va for a shot to shrink it. Yes, it has gotten down to a pin head size, but they still need to go in there and get the remains. All seems well with her so far.
Now to my step dad...a bit younger than my mom, just lost his job at the FORD plant in Norfolk, Va. My mom, being the nag that she is, nagged him to get to the doc for a check up. He went and found out he had kidney stones.  Mom isn't sure if he had pains or what, he won't tell her, but the doc told him that it is worse than what they thought. They need to perform surgery on him to remove them, to drain the kidney and get the stones out that all lodged in place. He is going in on the 22nd of Dec and more likely will not be home for Christmas My mom also said that if it is worse than they thought, he will lose that kidney. I need all the thoughts and prayers as possible, please. He has been my step dad for the past 13 years and I love him to pieces. And my mom has been through enough with herself, she doesn't need this right now. They are trying to be cheerful about it. They said they were gonna sell us kids to pay the bills, but I see through them

Posted by bunky @ 7:43 pm EDT | Permalink | 7 Comments

teacher update

Well the principal did finally call me back, after I called AGAIN at noon. She said that yes, the teacher is very strict and structured, and she will talk with Becca in the morning and then to the teacher (which is what I don't want), but the principal did say "Now, do I understand correctly that you are considering moving your child?" I said "No, I want my child moved regardless".
The principal also mentioned that when concerns have risen before with the teacher, she has sat in on a class or two and nothing has happened. Well of course nothing happened...she had the principal in there observing her I'm beginning to think I have my child enrolled in a school ran by idiots!

Oh and LB, don't worry babe, I kept my cool

Posted by bunky @ 3:24 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

I'm mad!

So here I sit at 8 Monday morning, waiting for the principal of our 8 year old daughter's school to call me back. I called Thursday and left a message and never heard anything so I called again this morning. So whats the problem? Her 3rd grade teacher. I HATE her! And apparently I am not the only one. Little by little our daughter has grown to hate going to school. It took almost 10 minutes to get her out of bed this morning. She started crying just before walking out to the bus stop. That broke my heart and I couldn't tell her "Well mommy is getting you transferred to another class TODAY!" because she would tell her teacher. This is not the norm for her. The first 3 years at this school has been awesome. Not one problem with her, except for the little chatter that kids do.
On the first day of school we had a huge rain storm and when Becca got home she actually started crying because her school/class folder got soaked. I told her to get a new one from her teacher and she said her teacher was gonna be mad. WTF?  WTF happened in that class the first day for her to be this scared? I kept getting notes from her teacher that she is not focused on her work, she is disrupting the class, she is off in space, she is not turning in her work...Huh? I am not right by her side when she does her homework, I want her to develop good skills on her own. Sure, I am sitting in the next room and available anytime she needs help, and I check her agenda book and all work is completed, correct and signed. They were doing subtraction in the hundreds not long ago. She kept getting all these problems wrong in class yet when she had them for homework she got them all right.
This is not her..her teacher has scared the living shit out of these kids, she has yelled at them. Yes, she has actually yelled at them! (confirmed from Becca) Shit, I don't even yell at her, why the hell is her teacher yelling at these 8/9 year olds? At the end of the summer, she got a note from school telling her the teacher she got. Our neighbor boy (who is older) kept saying "She is mean", not to scare her, just telling her. I also have a friend whose friends boy was in this teachers class last year and was transferred out because of the same problems. Why is this teacher still employed by this school system? I just don't get it. This teacher doesn't realize that she is hurting the fragile egos of these 8/9 year olds by acting this way. Hey, don't get me wrong, I am all for tough love, but I am not gonna scare the shit out of her like that to get her to do something. I think there are better ways then that!
Well, what a nice first blog
Oh BTW, I am Curvy, husband is LB75, we have 1 kid, Becca and 2 very furry German Shepherds, Kane and Allie. And I like Halo

Posted by bunky @ 7:58 am EDT | Permalink | 6 Comments