Please excuse the familial stuff on the writing blog, but I’m so pissed off I can’t even type straight right now. It took an hour and a half to write this! *grits teeth*

All it takes is one bad teacher to ruin the lives of many bright and cheery kids.

While my Care is not a cheery child and is bordering on stereotypical goth without the clothes, she is a smart kid. The light bulb is at least a 120 watt. At least, it was until the most recent Prairie Rose S.D. mistake darkened the hallways of the school. In every class except those four, my kid had damn good marks. My kid is now crushed. I’m talking CRUSHED. She tried damn frickin’ hard to keep up with that…creature’s…teaching methods. And it wasn’t just my kid, so what follows here is mostly conjecture. But I do know she really started picking on Care after I went to the parent-teacher night.

The woman holds a grudge, obviously. Just because I didn’t cow-tow to her when I went to take adult upgrading, just because Care is not the shiny happy student 24-7, just because I live a non-christian life – is that any reason to push her psychotic beliefs and attitudes on my kid? Granted, it wasn’t just my kid. She assigned homework to 12 year olds like she was assigning to the graduate class. Lots of work, very, very little explanation. And if you missed a day or two because of illness or whatever (this includes the storms we had) she plowed on anyway, and did NOT help when asked (and I know my kid and others asked). She refused to explain new material, or to go back and help those kids that she’d already ground into the floor under her sensible shoes.

Care is passing the grade because I say she’s passing and if the school board doesn’t like it – they know where I live. In fact, I know where most of them live, so perhaps a little quid pro quo is in order. They didn’t bother telling me whether or not she’s actually heading into grade 8 next year, I’ll just continue to assume.

Every other teacher gave Care great marks and good comments. Except this one bitch that needs to have her attitude adjusted.

I’m trying not to share my loathing of that woman with Care. I’m trying to give her some hope that maybe next year the sow will be gone and she can just start all over again with another, better, teacher. And if by some chance that woman is going to be teaching something at the grade 8 level, I will have Care either switched to another class, or that one she’ll spend in the library learning by correspondance.

Out of the five other parents I’ve talked to, all have the same opinions of the woman. She should have stayed at the Adult Ed. school teaching ESL. Maybe those folks like being treated like shit under her heel but we don’t….and we won’t put up with it.

And just in case Ms. M. K. does find this – before you deign to edit my kid’s writing, you fucking well better watch yours. Using a run on to tell her not to use a run on makes you look stupider than you already do.