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December 7, 2004

Ice cream dreams

Kendall's teacher is a boring snotty old woman. She informed the kids on the first day of school that they aren't allowed SNACKS because SNACKS make kids hyper. They're also allowed ice cream only on FRIDAYS because ICECREAM makes kids hyper as well.

She also finds any reason to not let the kids go outside for PE and she has 100 other rules that just make no fucking sense to me but are innocuous enough that I'm not bothered with fighting her about them. They're just STUPID though, ya know? Retarded oppressive boring-person rules.

I've told Kendall many times that her teacher sucks and that she's a boring old snob and Kendall smiles at me knowingly and goes on about her business. I swear she's too nice to be my offspring.

Today Kendall came home from school in a bad mood. She told me how some (horridly mean) boy got her in trouble at PE over a complete misunderstanding. She skulked around behind me as I put away dishes and folded laundry. Then all of a sudden her face lit up. She said "OH! MOM! You'll be so happy to know that a girl in my class asked the lunch lady why we only get ice cream once a week and the lady said we can have it everyday and we should let our teacher know that!" I said "Kendall I told you that you were following stupid rules all along. That girl just stood up for herself". She said "Yeah but now that she's been ratted out, we get ice cream ANY DAY!". I know now that I have a lot of work to do with Kendall. She should have been the one ratting out the teacher. I think I'll withhold ice cream money until she gets the teacher in trouble for not letting them go outside. Maybe I can have her lead a rebellion where all of the 3rd graders bring snacks to school and eat them right there in the classroom!

There's just no limit to the fun you can have with kids who are easily bossed around.

Hmmm...
I hope she never realizes she can question my authority though. On second thought, I'm going to tell her she should listen to her teacher.

Yeah.

Posted by krystal at December 7, 2004 1:42 AM