The Pledge of Allegiance

First of all, I wanted to thank those of you that answered the question. I always believe that mistakes are the only thing that one can really own and sometimes those little detours serve a purpose...

For those of you that are following my story with the school, let me give you an update and a little more information that I hadn't shared. The elementary school principal didn't return any of my phone calls until last week and I had been calling since the first of the month. The secretary first stated that she didn't have any messsages that I had been calling, then she put me on hold and told me the principal had called and left a thorough message. To this I replied that I didn't understand, since I had waited at home on the 3rd and the phone never rang. I asked which number they called. She stated, "I am looking at the paper right now and that is what it says. The number is ......" Shocked I replied "Well, that number has been disconnected for 2 months, I don't know where she left a message because it was obvioulsy not on my phone number or answering machine, that number has a busy signal." They lied to me.
After playing phone tagfor a few days, I finally spoke to her last Friday, she refuses to change Princess' class and gave me alot of useless banter...it's all politics. The teacher called my HOME last Thursday NIGHT! I found that inappropriate. She was her natural overbearing self. I agreed to meet with the teacher later on today at 3pm. Then I will schedule a meeting with the principal. Why? I don't know.
The bully that was terrorizing the Princess, had her seat changed by the teacher and then she moved on Wednesday....out of the school district. The teacher's coworkers that were constantly questioning the Princess about her dislike for school ( something I shared with the teacher CONFIDENTIALLY)are no longer pestering my daughter and the teacher has actually grown some manners (overnight). I guess I should have called sooner...

The part that I hadn't added was that on Nov. 1, a gym teacher kicked my son from behind when he was in the process of standing up. He did this in the presence of 89 other students in the gym class. Now what would warrant such an action from a gym teacher? Hopefully, nothing ever would!!! But in this case, he thought it was appropriate obviously. I phoned the school on the 3rd, didn't get a return call. Phoned again the next week....no answer, phoned again last Monday. Then on Wednesday the vice principal called me and told me he had spoken to my son and would be addressing the teacher. I asked for a meeting with him this Monday. What happened? Monday morning as I sat in front of him with Little One's father by my side, he admitted to the gym teacher's actions and then folded his hands. He then added he did it to MOTIVATE him. He said the wrong words to Little One's father. Little One's father is trained as a AA (faith based type) facilitator, he is trained in mediation and he had the vice principal's head spinning. Actually, I always tell him he picked the wrong profession, he should have been a lawyer. We told the vice principal that we were shocked with his complacent attitude concerning this inappropriate behavior by his staff and that justifying it by saying he was motivating him...just showed he condoned the behavior. He stuttered, he blushed, he became frustrated and by the end of the meeting we lost count of how many times he apologized. What was he thinking? We told him we wanted the teacher written up, and placed in his file. We set up another meeting for this Monday.
What has happened since Monday you ask?
1. Later on Monday my son was called to the guidance office and handed a paper by the secretary and told these words "Here's your new schedule." That's all folks...
2. The next day, the principal had my son sit in the office with the vice princiapl and gym teacher. The gym teacher "apologized" while calling him lazy and stated his classes were changed so that he wouldn't think it was an isolated incident, directed towards him.
3. The gym teacher called me and "apologized". At least he did in his mind. He stated that "I NUDGED your son because he didn't get up fast enough for the pledge of allegiance because he is lazy." Then he proceeded to tell me how he had not stood up fast enough and wanted me to share in his exasperation. UUuuuuhh, since when is it ok to kick a kid (that has ADD and TRANSITIONAL ISSUES I REPORTED TO THE SCHOOL IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR) because he wasn't showing the teacher he was fast enough in a response to the pledge? He also told me he is a coach and regularly does this to his athletes!! Trust me, I would never allow him to do that to one of my kids!!! What idiotic parents do?!? I don't want to know! During his whole little dance, I told him that I didn't wish to discuss anything over the phone because I wanted to discuss it at the meeting this coming Monday. He said he didn't know we still wanted to have it. Well, if we didn't cancel what is the obvious assumption!!!
Before the conversation ended, he had addressed my son as lazy on 3 separate occassions.
4. Then the vice principal calls. I call Little One's father and give him the message. During the course of the conversation, he casually tells Little One's father , that he is not listed as The Comedians' guardian and HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE WAS BECOMING SO INVOLVED!! Trust me when I tell you, they better thank God it was Little One's father and not The Comedian's Dad. They are both really big men, but The Comedian's Dad is alot more "thuggish". At least Little One's father is more verbiose and better able to communicate his message. Needless to say, The Comedian's Dad didn't like the insinuation and invited himself to the next meeting. Ok, tiny me gets to sit in between two irate men and watch as they unravel these asinine cowards. Somehow, the picture isn't really appealing to me...
5. Yesterday after having this meeting setup since Monday, the vice principal called to say it had to be rescheduled. Do you think they are trying to dodge us?
6. Funny, how the Elementary school principal told me I couldn't change my daughter's classroom...but the Middle School's princiapl changed my son's in a few hours notice and without my consent...

The worst part is that my son was not being disrespectful and they never stated he was acting up in any way. This all started because of the gym teacher's overzealousness to the pledge of allegiance and my son's misconstrued action of standing up too slowly to this nut's liking.

That takes care of Monday's drama....I need an another hour to fill you in on the rest, but I have to get my morining started and figured this was long enough already...