Trying to see how much time I have to spend helping Alex with his school work as well as going down to the school for meeting with the TEAM. They say that we are a team – Yea – most of the time it seems like they are the team and I am just trying to not get run over.  Them against me. The goal is to get the kids to make progress in their reading and writing, and arithmetic. At least that is what I believe and I foolishly think that the main responsibility should be the teacher – the professional teacher. And yet, it seems that every time I go into these meetings I get the: “What are you doing to help him at home question from the teachers. What am I doing? What are you doing?” Well we are trying to help you help him. Nice! But what are you the professional teaching team doing to teach. Sorry I digress.

At any rate while trying to help Alex stay caught up we get a “Grave Yard” list of things that if he does he will receive a zero. Evidently, the kids have a chance to re-edit and revise, however aside from the fact that Alex is pressed to get the assignments done once – trying to get him to re-do it will not be easy. Also one of the things on the Graveyard list is handing in an assignment late – will he be given extra time to re-edit or will he be given a zero anyway.  I will be headed to the grave yard trying to keep up with this crap!!

So Pattie e-mailed the principal and he actually called back (twice). I do appreciate his effort to keep up with us. However,

 I am not looking forward to another meeting with another teacher.

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