Updates and Strange Things

Last week for the first time this year I took a day off school on Friday. Ivy was chosen as student of the month by her science teacher and so I went to the Breakfast of Champions with her at her school. This would have made me late to school anyway, so I decided to take the whole day as a "Mom day."

The breakfast was fun! We were able to sit at a table with two of Ivy's friends (and their parents) who had also been chosen by science and math teachers. Ivy seemed embarrassed and pleased about all of it and her science teacher was really great with her.

Ivy with her breakfast of champions

We sat at one of the many 6th grader tables

Ivy with her science teacher, Mr. Wright

All the sixth grade students of the month

This week has been strange for me. On Monday I had to send a student to the dean's office for being too disruptive. He seemed like he really wanted me to send him there. I texted his mother about the incident and we had a little exchange where she told me that she was really struggling with him at home too. I told her that we would just continue to work with him the best we could!

He wasn't in class the next day (which was a bit of a relief.) Then on the next day I had him (which was Thursday) the attendance office called me at the beginning of class asking for him. He hadn't come into class and I told them so. They replied that he was listed as a runaway and that if he showed up, I needed to call the attendance office and let them know.

He did show up in class not too long after the phone call. Luckily, it was a day that I could make a call without anyone paying attention because the students were working on their family trees. They said not to say anything about it to him, but they would be by to pick him up.

Nobody showed up for about 40 minutes, but a guy came and told him to come with him with his stuff. They when they left, they closed my door. My class was really surprised by it. One of my students went to the door and peeked through a hole in my shade and reported that there was a cop and they were taking him away in handcuffs. I told him to go sit down (but was secretly shocked about it myself.)

I'm still wondering how he is doing.