Confrontational

This must be DA week....

So many shit things happen in the week. I reckoned it's not exactly what I would wish for the start of a new year.....

I went home almost 6.30 everyday... So many admin stuffs. Even the newbies were overwhelmed by the amt of work we are having rite now.

A parent aggressively complained about her daughter, the new filipino girl in my class, abt being bulied. I was shocked to hear of such. She insisted on meeting up with the parent of the other girl and settle it face to face. I was trying to calm her dowm but she got even more aggressive and wanted to come down to school to show my p and I, the 'fresh scratched wound'. After discussing with vp, I tot I could talked it out to her again but she insisted to come down to school. So I told vp to call her instead.The worse of all, the girl who bullied her daughter, her parent is a teacher from another school and I met him during pslemarking......

I called up the other girl, hoping to hear her side of the story. She said it was accidental. I told her mom abt what happened and luckily for me, she was quite nice.

The next day, vp confronted both girls and the story got confusing. They said they were only playing... Both girls do not blame each other. In fact they were giggling already. But later after school, the parents came down and kick up a huge fuss again. I can understand their concern and they made me and vp promise to not let anything happened to their daughter again.

I was just amazed how the children could easily forgive and forget, but adults are just plain bitter. Both the girls were seen playing after that.

But my vp considered the case as bullying coz the girl did use abusive language such as 'stupid', 'slow' and so on. So I have to raise a discipline case. Which is stupid. Under the SOPs, I have to send the poor girl to detention and counselling. I talked to the dad causually later in the evening and he said something along the lines of writing a letter to the school explaining her daughter's behavior and apologize. I told him it isnt necessary, but be prepared for some discipline action. That means more paperwork for me.

I still dun see why she shd be going counselling. The girls have both forgiven each other. But the damn shithole just want everything to look nice and proper on paper. To have proper documentation so that when comes to audit, it would not look so bad. It's all abt saving face. That's how adults do it.

The kids just forgive and forget. They will run around together again after saying sorry.