The tunes, they are a changin'

Well I have not heard from Olivia's teacher. I thought there was a chance the principal told
him not to respond to my e-mail and I was right. The principal called me instead, admitted he'd done that, and we spent over a half hour on
the phone. He began the conversation by completely contradicting what he said to me last
Thursday and Friday. He said that this WAS his responsibility to fix this problem and he
was going to handle it. He tried a few times to make a point about something that was not the issue in order to stick up for this teacher in some way but I had too much proof and logic and left him with
no comeback several times. I told him I was not interested in splitting hairs or going off the
topic and that he certainly did not have to take my word on everything. There is an aid
in his class everyday, I told him to ask her if what I was saying was true and the kids for that matter. I have a feeling he
may have asked her already or someone warned him that he had better stop saying that
it was not his job to fix this or he could make trouble for himself because his whole attitude had
completely changed. I told him that I was considering a petition and letter writing campaign and
that we were still furious that this happened. He asked me what I wanted to have happen now.
I told him I wanted the teacher to apologize to Olivia and that if he so much as looked at her
sideways for the next 5 weeks, I was going to go forward. I have a friend who is on a board of
education in a neighboring town. I have another friend who is a high school principal. Even my
sister-in-law, who is a pre-school teacher, was giving me advice on how a bad teacher in their town was removed due to a petition. I told the principal that I had spoken to them over the weekend(I had) and that they were urging me to go forward with this. I said that if the kids
all dislike him as well as the parents and if several teachers and staff members that we know(mostly through Tim's business) come right out and tell us they feel bad that Olivia got
him as a teacher, this man is obviously a problem. I told Olivia that I know this was upsetting for her but many times good things come out of bad things happening. I said that since
she and I stuck up for her and the kids, maybe things will improve now for his future students.
I wanted to put some kind of positive spin on this whole cruddy situation. The end -of -school party should be interesting. I am one of the class moms. Awkward or not, I will be there,
and with my little digital voice recorder in my pocket you can bet.