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Have you ever been treated with such disrespect that you were actually left in shock? That’s what happened to me today.

I started the morning off so happy because I was taking my son to a playdate sponsored by our local school district. It’s always wonderful to get out of the house. We left a little early because I had scheduled a meeting with another staff member at the school to go over some research for an article I am writing. Apparently I left a little too much time because we ended up with about 20 minutes between the meeting’s end and the start of the playdate. So, I asked the office secretary if we could go down to a friends classroom and say “hi” really fast. Oh, did I mention that I worked at this place for four years before I quit to stay home with my children? She called the classroom to make sure it was okay and after getting approval from the teacher, we headed down the hallway. During our short visit, my son started doing his pee-pee dance (he’s recently potty trained and still doesn’t like the big public toilets), one of the teachers told me to go down the hall to another classroom because they have a potty seat. I should have known that because it was my old classroom and I bought the freakin’ thing!! So, anyways, I take my son to the bathroom, and upon coming out the school’s principal is standing there and says to me, “I need to see you in the hall.” Note the tone in front of my young son. So, we go in the hallway and he proceeds to tell me that I don’t need to be there and blah-blah-blah. Just like he did when I worked there, he never listened to what I was saying. I tried to tell him that I had a meeting and we had some extra time and that I had gotten permission with the office secretary to come down there. His response, after repeating myself several times, was this, “Well, you must have been misinformed.” I’ll give you misinformed, to think that I really care what you say or think. This man is one of the biggest reasons why I am not teaching there anymore. I would not work with someone who was so disrespectful to me, other staff members, and not to mention, students. I will not even send my children to school there and already have them on a waiting list for a private preschool for the year 2010-2011. This man is an arrogant and self-absorbed SOB. He didn’t like the fact that came into his building under a newly formed position and started to point out things that needed to change and told him that he was actually doing things illegally when it came to special education and behavior management things. He had this mind-set that special education and preschool was not his problem and someone else needed to take care of it. He didn’t like it when I told him that the preschool didn’t have to be there, it is not currently mandated by the state education department, but the preschool special education students and myself would be there no matter if there was a preschool or not. He didn’t like being told by a young dumb-blonde girl that he basically needed to just deal with the fact that we were there and there was nothing he could really do about it. Now, after quitting work there almost 2 years ago, I stop in to take my child to an event and say “hi” to some former colleagues and I’m treated like some damn annoying rash that you just can’t get rid of. I told my husband that I was so mad I could sh@* bullets!! Anyways, this was just one of the few mommy anger moments I have experienced and I just needed to vent a little bit. Writing is a good way to express feelings and I feel much better now!!

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