Aaaaaaaaand balance is restored.
Feb. 21st, 2012 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Page got sent home for making kids cry by talking about bombs and shooting them and...
First kid's counselor who has an opening is getting our business, 'cause fuck waiting till April!
On the plus side, he was pretending he was a bomb defuser, so that's good, right? The shooting of classmates isn't good anyway we look at it, though...
The other, more selfish, plus side is that the call, picking up Geoff, meeting with the administration and dropping off of Geoff and Page at home only made me five minutes late to class. Where I think I did well on the test, though probably not 100% I think this teacher may have a thing against giving 100%s (just got back the homework assignments, where I got 96% and 95%, the latter being a somewhat unreasonable markdown, in my opinion.)
Ach well. Tea will be had. Birthday cake will be resisted. But at least Page is being uber sweet right now, as he always is after he's been told he's been very naughty.
First kid's counselor who has an opening is getting our business, 'cause fuck waiting till April!
On the plus side, he was pretending he was a bomb defuser, so that's good, right? The shooting of classmates isn't good anyway we look at it, though...
The other, more selfish, plus side is that the call, picking up Geoff, meeting with the administration and dropping off of Geoff and Page at home only made me five minutes late to class. Where I think I did well on the test, though probably not 100% I think this teacher may have a thing against giving 100%s (just got back the homework assignments, where I got 96% and 95%, the latter being a somewhat unreasonable markdown, in my opinion.)
Ach well. Tea will be had. Birthday cake will be resisted. But at least Page is being uber sweet right now, as he always is after he's been told he's been very naughty.
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Date: 2012-02-21 08:59 pm (UTC)I once had a lecturer tell us straight out that the highest mark he would award was 85%. 95 and 96 don't sound bad at all!!
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:44 am (UTC)Heh. So, if you got an 85%, you effectively aced it, eh? *shakes head at professorial quirks*
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Date: 2012-02-21 09:27 pm (UTC)Loves you, Sonia :)
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:41 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:22 pm (UTC)I'm sorry, perhaps I'm reacting the wrong way, but I don't know the child - including myself - who hasn't at some point run around yelling "dagga dagga dagga" and 'shooting' everything and everyone in sight. I know that it was still going on at university - the lads in my hall of residence spent a whole weekend retaking Hill 17 or something - it was very funny. As far as I know, none of us ended up as a gun-toting maniac.
Perhaps playing war games isn't exactly civilised, but it IS normal.
And I think it's cool that he was defusing the bombs.
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:40 am (UTC)Also, there's some sort of law requiring admin action when a student throws around the word "bomb". Or something. I suspect it's part of the Patriot Act, if it wasn't put into place immediately after Columbine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre) Anyway, by law bringing anything resembling a weapon, including nerf guns, to school earns an automatic suspension. Not that Page did, of course. He didn't need to.
Also in the admins' defense, they're more worried about Page's retreat into his imagination and his noticeable regression in social skills more than anything. Geoff and I have been worrying about this issue, too. It's getting more and more difficult to keep him in reality, and he's surlier when he gets called back.
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Date: 2012-02-22 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-28 04:51 pm (UTC)Thanks and *hugs back*