“Meet the Parents”

Not the movie, but the real life drama. We parents complaint about the disappearance of the teacher in Sienna’s class. The head of the school called a meeting to appease (cover their ss). We were going to post a petition letter to get our disappearing teacher back. They didn’t let us do that. At the meeting, they insisted that the teacher didn’t leave because of one parent’s complaint but her own request of placement in another classroom. The parents were so mad. One of us stood up in the middle of it and took off. I asked, with the court scene in the back of my mind, in the Montessori Theory, what makes a bigger impact on the children, to change a teacher or to change the room? Ms M didn’t know where I was leading. She implies that every room is almost identical. So I said “why last year when you wanted to change the room, you wrote a letter to inform us ahead of time, now you changed a teacher without even telling us? And I had to hear it from my daughter?” I was going to say, like a lawyer, ”no further question.”

I said, look, you could stick to your story. I will tell my side of the story on the internet. One day, when people type in the key words, like your school name, my opinions will appear along side of your school’s web site. The head of the school, having a lawyer as her daughter, said to me, “I have a lawyer, you know.” That got to be the best part of the day. Well, chase me right here on the information highway.