Monday's Child is full of
05/14/2007 10:24 p.m.
EXCITEMENT! WOOHOOO!

Ok.. 3 parts WOOHOO! and 1 part Oh CRAP!

I didn't go to work today... shame on me, not! I have the sick days available, and I had a job interview this morning, plus I called my son's Dr. to get a follow up appt. Nearly had an accident (vehicular and bodily) when the office told me over the phone (cellp phone, I was driving to my interview) that an office visit would START at $126, plus labs! Holy CRAP! but I really needed to be reassured by my son's Dr. that he IS on the upside of this damn bacterial infection that he got from God only knows where... (I wish God would let us know, because if he got it from school, I am suing their butts for his ER bill and everything else).

Anyway... I THINK the interview went REALLY well. The position is similar to what is called a Diagnostician Intern in my current district. There will be a LOT of paperwork, which I don't mind, just so long as I can manage to keep an organized schedule. No full-time secretary, right now just a clerk 2 hours a week... but I think this would be a REALLY great opportunity! I have another interview on Wednesday, and a third interview trying to be scheduled as well... all of them in another school district! I'm rather happy about that.

AFTER, the interview I picked up some lunch and went to my husband's job to have lunch with him, and to get directions on how to get to my son's school (the one with the Drs appt., he goes to a magnet school that's not near our home) I get a phone call from #1 son...he's being expelled AGAIN, for 3 days!

We knew he was building up to something. He called me this morning after having a verbal exchange with the officer on his campus, and an AP, and it seems also several teachers. At lunch someone put nacho's in his school binder. He told the AP, the AP didn't try to investigate it right away because he was on lunch duty and monitoring the lunch lines. My son thought he'd found out who had done it, so he went and poured milk on the kid, the kid chased my son across the cafeteria, slammed his head into the wall (his ear is swollen and turning purple). My son threw his binder at the kid to get him off... they are both suspended for 3 days..

and then I got the rest of the story... the kid who had my son against the wall (kid #1) started the whole mess this morning by putting toast in another kids (Kid #2) back pack and telling him that my son had done it. Kid #2 put the Nacho's in my son's binder, but my son was told that kid #1 had done it. My son poured milk on Kid #1, and the rest became a huge messed up scene.

My father suggests I press charges against kid #1... I don't know what to do... my son shouldn't have poured milk on kid #1, but then again, he didn't see any one in authority trying to act on the problem, so he took it into his own hands. My son doesn't have the patience or self-control to set by and wait. My son's ear is really messed up looking though... I also don't have the money to get an attorney, and don't know how to go about filing charges on this other child... so I don't know what to do!

At least the whole day wasn't bad.