Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Best Bitchy E-mail String Ever!

Y'all, I have never previously seen impossible modified, but here you are! (no, actually, here you aren't, because it erased large parts of my post, but enjoy anyway.)


Olady..please see Mr. Cruellas' email below and then read mine. I expect that the verbage in my son's dicipline notes will be changed immediately. No cursing happened whatsoever. A fair reading of the disciplinary notes (after hearing you and Mr. Cruella) should read : Jonesy confronted another student who verbally harrassed (teased/mocked) him in class.

I completely understand. You were there in the classroom when it happened and for you to refer Jonesyto the VP you must have heard the "threat". Therefore, I would like you to tell me if my son cursed or not. Again, I ma not excusing my son...but would like to know verbatim what was said...as it seems to change almost daily.

Regards,

I apologise for the delay in the response, but it seemed to me as though your questions were best answered by Olady.
The referral I wrote said simply that he threatened another student, which upon Olady's review of the situation, was determined to be an accurate assessment. I am not responsible for anything the discipline record states about cursing. As a professional, I am very careful about what I write down/say about/to students because all of these things are legal record and have to be defensible in court, therefore have to be unimpeachable truth. I am sure if there is any error OLady will correct it. If you would like to meet with OLady and myself, please let us know and we will be happy to meet with you to resolve your concerns regarding this situation


Now I am at an extreme loss. I was just online and looked through Jonesy's discipline. Apparently, after some of my emails, the discipline note changed. NOW apparently, he used the "F" word???? This was never stated to me via the phone call from the Vice Principal, a note from the teacher or the original discipline note recorded on Parent Connect. I am extrememly upset/confused/bewildered by this. AND although I appreciate getting a notice of Blankety DiBlanco's suspension, he is not my child, and perhaps another parent got my son's notice. Surely more care needs to be taken when mailing confidential information to parents. ANYWAY..back to the subject at hand. ORIGINALLY, he was being disciplined for standing up and confronting a child. NOW, after my emails, it has changed to foul language.
All of this is unacceptable. NEVER once in the phone call from the Vice Principal was it stated that Jonesyused foul language - this is somehting brand new this week. I just wondering is it common practice to go in an change a child's discipline notes after a parent complains? And this time I do expect a response from the teacher and the Vice Principal.


I think, perhaps, the reason that Mr. Cruellaas has not responded to any of your emails is because your emails were sent to three of us- Mr. Cruella, another person, and me. The email, if I remember correctly, wasn’t addressed to anyone specifically. Since I answered your questions, he may have assumed that was sufficient.

You are welcome to meet with me, Mr. Cruella, and Jonesy. However, the other student will not be in attendance.

-----Actually, Jonesy was listed as an unexecused absence from Physics on Friday. So, I am wondering, was this an error? Was Jonesy not there? Or was Zachary there and not given his Physics quiz?
Also, in addition, the reasoning given for only one child given ISS in last week's incident is not acceptable to me. It looks as though the only reason Jonesy was given ISS and the other boy was not - was that Jonesy got up out of his chair...which leads me to believe that it is ok to incite a negative reaction from someone as long as you stay in your chair. Is this correct? Is it ok to be rude, insulting and obnoxious in class as long as you stay in your chair? Is it possible to set up a meeting with you and the other boy in question. Apparently, this is not the first time this boy has been rude and insulting to Jonesy. And the fact that the teacher himself has not answered my emails and questions is unacceptable to me. Perhaps the principal should be involved in this also.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

For Ola from the Internets


Im in yur hows playin gamz with yur catz

Friday, May 18, 2007

I Am An Incoherent Action Transvestite!

So y'all all want to hear about what happened for Trey's birthday-



Y'all, it is Trey's birthday weekend, and his present hasn't come yet, and actually shan't arrive for another couple of weeks- but let me point out that he CLEANED THE HOUSE for his birthday. AND it is CLEANER than it has EVER been, or at least it's cleaner than it's been in at least 7 years. Unbelievably clean. I honestly did not know that it could be that clean. So we will have to tell you all all about this exciting event. We are going to some restaurant called Haas that has ! :( Tapas. Anyway.

And it was GREAT! I loved it! The restaurant had EXCELLENT calamari, and the portions weren't overly dinky/fussy, and then we went dancing afterwards, which was a lot of fun-but the best part was that we dressed up. Yes.

Alex and Sara declined to come, which was unfortunate, because our outfits were so- well- so-EXTREME that they will have to be witnessed by Alex and Sara. Perhaps their heads will explode; Alex has a little hard-wired accounting brain, and Sara is still having trouble with the tiara- so- we are plotting to appear at her graduation.

I cannot wait to put up pictures. Y'all the thrift store is also not cheap anymore, ok? Like their stuff is like 10-15 bucks! And if you shop carefully, you can get NEW things for that much. But we shopped carefully, and I got a red chinese jacket which I wore with my vinyl trousers and my 8 women shoes. Everyone was- intrigued, and Trey got a mohawk, and wore eyeliner. He still doesn't have his kilt and corset though. And this dude in a blue and white striped shirt tried to dance with me and with Willavette and with Elizabeth. Interesting.

I have like three brain cells left that are working, and they are dedicated to looking at lolcats online. That is sad. If this gets any worse, I am going to require assistance in looking at lolcats online, and then I will develop an interest in televised sports, and then I will become a liberal.


I got a 2500 scholarship to Ga State for the first year! :)

The kids are watching "Happy Feet" which strikes me as hideously dull. It's an entire movie of annoying, singing, dancing penguins.



O and there are some congress members doing something called the Congressional Food Stamp Program. I'm a little torn because on one hand, I think it's grandstanding, and on the other hand, perhaps this will do some good? Or not. Never mind. The whole thing seems to be dedicated to finding out that being poor sucks, which I could have told them. Perhaps this goes to show just how out of touch they are if they have to make a big deal about finding out that being poor sucks. Besides, I'm very not into expanding entitlement programs-.


Wow, I'm interested in Helping the Poor. (Well, after my gradual decline in my standard of living-) I don't know what to think.

Anyway there's the week for y'all. Please don't expect too much coherence.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2457332

Y'all have to read this book; it is about "Latawnya, the naughty horse" and features horses smoking and drinking!

We have seen the future and it is postmodern. We have now reached the age where random monikers are slapped on things with no regard for meanings or significance, and it sucks. So now I am going to rail against this week is REALLY STUPID CAR NAMES. OK? Like, seriously. The latest nominations are Suzuki Splash- this is a real car- would you not be ashamed of driving a "splash?", Saturn Switch, and Ford Flex. First of all, Switch is an idiotic thing to name a car after, even dumber than Relay. Secondly, "Switch" certainly calls into question one's sexuality, and it just sounds moronic. I don't WANT the words "Flex," "Splash," or "Switch" associated with any car I am likely to own. OK? So stop. In fact, I would absolutely under no circumstances purchase a car with such a name. Surely there are hundreds of discarded nameplates that could be resurrected instead of giving cars names that suggest nothing at all, or worse, negative characteristics. In the not that distant past, cars carried names that were evocative of power, luxury, freedom- full of meaning. Like Riviera, LeSabre, Fairlane, Fifth Avenue, Cordoba- just to name a few. Something about pronouncing the words evoked pride. Now cars have meaningless names, or alphanumeric gibberish.

What's up with the pseudo-scientific sort of car names like Ion and Element and Axiom, also? Cobalt is actually ok. We should come up with a quiz; is D600 a drug, car, computer, or "food product"? Bonus points! Who makes it?

Also we have enough computing power nowadays in our laptops to - I don't know, do something that it takes a whole lot of computing power to do- and people use it to make pictures of cats saying ungrammatical things on the internet, and then I look at these pictures all day.