Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.
It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.
We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.
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@junipersky said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.
It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.
We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.
Hopefully it’s put down as a learning moment for you as a teacher. Finding out you’ve been messing up something after the fact can be stressful as all hell. But if others knew and didn’t help correct mistakes, They’re the assholes.
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We still don’t fully understand why she said racist multiple times, but we were able to meet and talk about her kid and his progress so I’m going to call it a win?
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@Wuff said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@junipersky said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.
It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.
We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.
Hopefully it’s put down as a learning moment for you as a teacher. Finding out you’ve been messing up something after the fact can be stressful as all hell. But if others knew and didn’t help correct mistakes, They’re the assholes.
As a former secondary school teacher (we don’t do middle school out here), though in a different country, I can also see such accusations being entirely baseless or based on misunderstanding/misreporting. Especially if you’re teaching something to do with history, or even English grammar.
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I got my only accusation of racism as a school counselor over schedule changes, and upon investigation, realized where it came from. I was denying schedule changes according to the written policy, but certain students (mostly wealthy and white) appealed over my head to a vice principal who made the schedule changes they requested, so it very much looked like some students were receiving favorable treatment (which they were, just not from me).
Unfortunately, there was no denying that the school and district had issues with systemic racism, which made it understandable that parents would become frustrated.
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On the tail end of catching, spay/neutering, and medicating ~10 non-feral cats that our aunt left behind loose on a family property. Really, really tragic circumstances, both in the awful conditions that she had been living in — conditions our parents, aunts and uncles were aware of and didn’t intervene in, which has been difficult to come to terms with — and the state of these animals. They’ve all been treated and paired off for fostering, with one special case still scheduled for surgery. Trail cams up to catch sight of any stragglers. Jesus fucking christ, what a dark chapter to come out of. Wish 2026 was offering time to deflate, but I guess that’s not the vibe.
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@helvetica They can’t say thank you with words, but I will. Thank you for helping those furry babies.
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Took kiddo to the fair last night. She is too tall now for the little kid rides.
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@junipersky My niece’s 13th birthday is tomorrow. I’m not prepared and yet as the aunt that colors my hair in vivids and owns a ton of makeup and stuff – I’m completely prepared. She’s come a long way from the 8 year old asking me to read her the boob chapter in the ‘my body’ book because you know, I have bigger boobs than the other adults around her so I must understand them better.
Noted: I will remind her of this story tomorrow.
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Wisconsin let me the fuck down yesterday. It had one job. Whatever, I’m drinking myself into oblivion, because that’s what Sconnies do.
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