What Would Tom Sawyer Do? Well it sure wouldn't be asking OurDad to fix the school teacher.
It's no sooner after OurDad decides to move us all to Missouri, or Missoura, than he's cramming Mark Twain down our throats. What's next: biographies of Harry Truman or the memoirs of Laura Engles?
Anyway, with just a few weeks of school left you'd think he realize I can sweat it out, but noooo, he's got to try and make it easier for me just because he's feeling guilty about becoming our personal Harry Truman by dropping the big one on our family. He's gone and complained about my ultra hard teacher, Dr. Barbarian, to the principal. This is only going to make school worse, if that's possible.
It's not like Dr. B. suddenly started throwing around C's and D's to kids, including me, in the Woundtight School district's Magnet program. It's all stick and no carrot from that lady, at least my other teachers are really cool. What a reward for doing more than our peers around the district. Did I mention that my report card, which would be straight A's at any other school in the district says nothing about Magnet or Advanced, so when I move to Missouri I guess I'll be placed in the remedial courses with kids that say Missoura.
OurDad to the rescue. Yesterday he spent an hour and a half busting the principals balls just for me. Please with all this Mark Twain stuff he's talking up, you'd think OurDad would have come up with something a little more clever and anonymous. Now I gotta watch my back because Dr. Barbarian is gonna be gunning for me.
Any ideas? What would Tom Sawyer Do? Please note hooky too obvious to be an option.
About Me
- SourDad
- The Boy Child (5/16/96) and the Girl Child (7/2/98) live in Michigan with Great Mom, BUT Sour Dad now lives in Missery. He's now a zero-time Dad and full-time goof-off or rather assistant professor whose kids are would like him to return to being at least a part-time stay-at-home parent. Idle no more science Ph.D. we just hope he'll toss the literary aspirations and stick to grading student papers instead of trying to imitate the likes of Roth, Twain, Kafka, Vonnegut, Orwell, McCort, Magnuson, Sedaris, and Boyle all at the same time.
2 comments:
Ok so I should have addressed the issues with Dr. B. long ago, and I didn't bust the principals balls. He was he was very attentive, and I think he'll be busting Dr. B. balls over the next few weeks.
I really hope it doesn't make things harder for the BoyChild, but I have been assured it won't because people are watching out for any backlash.
You tell BoyChild to stand tall because the problem isn't him. He has good parents who stand up for him, which I'm sure he really appreciates after yesterday. I just can't fathom anyone being so negative to a kid like him.
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