Since being in his reading teachers class this year, T has come home saying that his teacher yells at him a lot. That he makes a lot of "mistakes" some days. He gets super fidgity when asked how his day went. After his retelling of his day on Friday, I now know why.

He was supposed to be doing some writing. His pencil was dull and not writing good. He raised his hand to ask if he could sharpen his pencil. She grabbed his arm, and pulled him across the room to the pencil sharpener. He said it hurt. His leg got caught up in his desk and chair. Still, she pulled. He nearly fell over. Back to his desk he is sent. Not too long after, his lead in his pencil breaks. Again, he raises his hand to go sharpen his pencil. Again, she grabs his arm and drags him to the pencil sharpener. So hard this time it hurts him so bad that he begins to cry. To this, she begins to ridicule him in front of the entire class. "BOO HOO! OH BOO HOO! Why dont you stop your stupid bawling!" She then ripped his pencil from his hand and sharpened it herself this time.

Needless to say I am LIVID. No one manhandles my kid that way. After talking with a very highly trusted teacher friend of mine, apparently this teacher has a 'track record.' One of Ms children went to PVE back when this teacher was teaching. And went through her class. And had a lot of the same things happen, including verbal abuse (name calling, stupid, idiot, etc) and things were taken to social services. She was put on notice but nothing more ever came to pass. Apparently, other families have gone through to have problems with her as well. Her rap sheet at social services is long. I am not supposed to know this, my teacher friend could get fired for divulging, so as K and I go to a meeting with the principal (a new one, his second year at PVE, so he is unaware of her history in this) I cant mention it. But we will let him know this current behavour and treatment of T is unacceptable.

I really wish we could have gone in earlier, but Ks work has been hectic. Tomorrow morning at 8:30 is as soon as we could do this together. And while I voulnteer there and know the principal well, and could have gone in by myself yesterday, K wants to be there to thouroughly stress our stance on this, together. Not just me as one, but as a family. That this is deplorable behavior and wont be tolerated. If this happens again, we WILL take it to the school board and social services. The principal needs to be aware of all this before it happens, should it.

My stomach is in knots and I did not sleep well last night. I wont until things get better resolved. Testing to get him out of said class wont happen until the end of the quarter. Not unless the teacher decides to reccomend him early. I am not so sure that would happen.

There is more to this story and the info that I have that I could tell but I wont. I am sick to my stomach and exhausted. I need to find something to take my mind off of things until tomorrow morning. I can get a bit of rest after that but this, I am afraid, is going to be a bit of a long haul.