Crankyparent

I have a bit of a story to share tonight. I have a parent of one of my students who has given me grief several times this year. We've met with her three times this year already, and she will be just fine in the meeting, but then she'll leave and send me an email out of nowhere letting me know what else our staff has done wrong. I have continually prayed, thinking she will get a clue. However, things have just gradually gotten worse as the year as progressed. It's all been with the parent, not the kid. While the child requires a lot of assistance, I like the kid.

So we have parent/teacher conferences last week, and I didn't make it to this student's meeting because I had an IEP meeting to do, and we had just met with CrankyParent two days earlier AND GAVE HER EVERYTHING SHE WANTED FOR HER KID. I figured it would be okay to miss the meeting since I had zilch extra to say. I have 21 other kids I need to be serving too.

I wasn't at the parent/teacher conference but whatever happened upset Crankyparent. I knew nothing about it though, as we were on a 3 day weekend.

So, Sunday I checked email and the parent was requesting the kid's records from last year. I just prayed, and asked those here for the retreat to pray as well. I didn't mention names, just that I needed some prayer support. Monday I checked email and there was a letter saying she had called the office and gotten the information from them. Hum...okay, she got her information. I was PRAYING that was the end of it.

Apparently she also set a meeting with my principal, and at the end of it, she had a transfer request completed.

I sit here and scratch my head. We gave her everything she wanted for her kid, and yet we still have a parent who wants to yank her out of my program and put her back at her old school.

Honestly, that tilts my "bucket". It doesn't empty it, because as sad as it is to say, my life would be easier without Crankyparent in it.

However, I like this kid. And, this kid is making gains in my program. Not leaps and bounds, but steps forward. And, we have a connection. I have clicked with this kid, even though I'm INCREDIBLY guarded due to the level of trust that Crankyparent has with me now. I literally had to print out EVERY email this parent has ever sent me and I have sent her. CRAZY.

I realize some people are unhappy no matter what you do. It's also unfortunate that the parent is so unstable because no matter where she puts her kid, teachers and staff are going to now be so on guard that a healthy relationship won't be possible. It takes a relationship between teachers and parents to make this whole thing work. And this parent is losing the good rapport she had with the school the more she stirs the pot.

I don't know when all the results will be in about the transfer.

I do know that when my boss did some checking and found out that what I'm giving her daughter at my school isn't available at the other school, I had to chuckle. My boss called the Mother to let her know that, she was speechless.

I'm sure there will be an email tomorrow about that too.

I'll keep ya posted.

Life.
Is.
Good.
Even when God builds our character through others.