lead by example

March 8: Edwin threatened to murder another student in his classroom. When Vivi tried to intervene, he threatened to stab her with the pair of scissors he was holding in his hand. When his mother came to pick him up, Melissa and Vivi tried to discuss the incident with her, but she was only half paying attention to what they were saying while trying to get her kids to hurry up and get ready to leave because she was taking them out for ice cream.

March 9: Melissa was on behavior duty and had to escort one kid out into the hallway when he was having a break down in class when one kid didn’t move out of his way fast enough.
“Why would you react like that?”
“That’s how we do it where I’m from. I’m from the…” Instead of finishing his sentence, he lifted the combination cotton and synthetic fiber hood of his sweater.

March 10: If I ever run for president, my main campaign promise will be to get rid of daylight savings time.

March 11: When I was little, I was obsessed with Pocahontas. It lead me to own every piece of merchandise I could could convince my parents to buy for me, sing my favorite songs at the head every time we took at the canoe, and even once try to befriend a raccoon during a camping trip. When my parents asked me why I loved her so much, I responded that it was because she looked just like me.

March 12: It’s a strange thing to advance to the voir dire round of jury duty because you are stuck in a non-ventilated room with 70 other people. A lawyer will ask you if you ever think it is ever justified to shoot someone in the face while the two defendants are sitting ten feet away and staring at you.

March 13: My kids kept asking where I was and Melissa tried to explain jury duty to them. I’m not sure what she said, but about a third of the class thinks I’m in jail right now.

March 14: There was a protest at school today. Students from all grades marched around the school and into Precita Park, where they held hands in a circle and demanded that guns be kept out of schools.

March 15:

I shouldn’t have gone onto the internet. I wanted to see if all the school walkouts had influenced any lawmakers. Instead, I just saw comments about how “retarded” these kids are because their actions have done nothing and that the reason there are school shootings is because these kids haven’t learned to treat people nicely.  

I love when people lead by example.

March 16: Miss Jen interrupted everyone’s reading buddy time by announcing on the walkie that L’madja was eating ants.






much love,
hedgie