Aaaaaaaaand balance is restored.

[averygoodun42]

Page 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.

Comments

[paisleysnail.livejournal.com]

Oh noes. Definitely hope Page can see a counsellor soon.

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!!

[sbrande.livejournal.com]

Fuck babe, he's just being a kid. But I know it's worrying to say the least.

Loves you, Sonia :)

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Blimey, by that measure, most of the kids in England would be in counselling. Talking about bombs makes the other kids cry? WTF is wrong with them? Why don't they pick up imaginary guns and shoot him back?

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.

[(Anonymous)]

So Al Qaida has won, eh? American kids ca't even tolerate the word bomb or a finger-"gun" pointed at them? But i hope the counsellor helps, anyway. Even if his reality is boring and annoying, unfortunately he has to deal with it. Hugs to you both.