Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Well, things are just as stressful as I last wrote (or was it the post before).  This week one student cut her finger badly (requiring stitches) in cookig class just 10 minutes before the scheduled lock down drill.  (do you know we now do drills for a lockdown situation as well as fire drills?!!).  As there is a daycare and another small school in our building - and a bad PA system - we have to schedule these things carefully so I had to go ahead with that.  Of course (being my school) the 16 year old’s mother REFUSED to take her to the hospital to which the kid kindly screamed “F off Mom” loudly into the phone, in the girls washroom with the door open so it echoed through out our small school.  Warms the heart that these people have kids, doesn’t it?

I sent the child youth worker off with the kid to get stitches (the kid later decided she had waited long enough and took off before she got the stitches!).   Two very tall (over 6′) boys decided to fight it out in the caf.  I am too small to stop them, but one teacher is 6′4″ so he stood between them.  One still managed to smack the other one once or twice by reaching around the teacher.  Both boys were AMAZED to be suspended.  Moms are due to come in with them on Monday morning.

Yesterday three fights broke out, including the same cut finger girl (did I mention she is on house arrest for trafficking cocaine?) swearing at me.  When I told her to go home she spit in my face but we did get her off school property while I called the police.  They actually showed up about 45 minutes later which is fast for a low grade assault like this.  The kid did phone and apologize before the police arrived and I did tell them but as she threatened to throw a full can of coke in my face before she spit at me, they felt that even if I did not charge her she would be charged by the detective who will be assigned to the case.  Police convinced her to come to school to talk to them (with the threaten of a warrant for her arrest if she didn’t).  One spoke to her and when the other on added something she told the second officer she was not talking to her, swore, spit in her face!  At that time they decided to cuff her (in front of the school) but she resisted arrest.

They did get her into the back of the cruiser and she kicked the window out causing glass to cut the officer’s face.  They radioed that an officer was assaulted which brought a guy with a video camera to the scene.  As he was not on school property I could not remove him but he assured me that as she is a minor her face would be blurred out.  He claimed to be with the tv station but as his truck had no markings I have my doubts.

Where was the principal and VP during all of this??  (Oh and 12 kids decided to just walk out of the school while I was contending with this).  I had called when I was spit on.  I sent an email when I spoke to the police, but my admin team obviously thought they did not have to bother coming to my school.  In fact, I called them after school and they said they were just going to call the girl.  I pointed out that she is now in jail and most likely not even being granted bail.  I was informed that she will gt a 20 day suspension - with a restraining orde that she cannot come near the school or me.  During the 20 days they will do the paper work to expel her completely.

So, my dears, please do not take it to heart that I have not been online lately!  As for me, I have to go to the dr’s because it is possible that I got spit in my eye - which means I have the body fluid of a known drug user in my body!  I actually do not think this is a problem but I figured I would see the dr on work time and not mess my weekend up with it!  Naturally, I am looking for a new job!  I did, in fact, tell my admin team earlier this week that I will not fulfill my contract (hey they did misrepresent the job somewhat) of two years.  Technically I have to stay until the end of the year, but I am not sure now that I will.  We will see what postings come up!

So..how was your week??

Cheers!