When 8 days seem like an eternity

Eight days can seem like an eternity when something (or someone) is hanging over your head. I am tired. Do I have to do this? Can I quit now? I suppose I can hang on for eight more days. I guess I have to. ;-)

A parent called me yesterday and proceeded to chew me out on the phone for "picking on" her daughter and making her scared to come to school. She first asked why I had given the child an F on her report, and I replied that the F was because the child had not even turned in the whole report. She then asked why I had marked the child down on her Wax Museum costume, and I replied that I had done no such thing. This child had received full points for her costume. She next told me that this has been going on all year and that at first she thought it was the child but now other children in my class are saying the same thing. She also said that if my pregnancy was getting in the way of my teaching I should just quit until I had the baby (hey, she does have a point there). :-) Anyway, I was very nice to her, and we were supposed to have a meeting with the principal today, but she called to tell the principal taht she can't make it for a medical reason. She said that she stayed up until midnight last night with this child because she was so scared to come back to school today, so she did not send her to school. She is not going let me "terrorize" her child. Sooooo, I guess I am just stuck waiting for this meeting to come. And the child is falling further behind in her work (and I have to enter grades this week). This child fails to turn in most of her work, and if she does turn it in then it is the worst possible work that she can do. I just don't know what to do. I have gone through feelings of self-pity, defeat, and anger, and I think I am still kind-of on that same rollercoaster. :-) Sometimes it is hard to want to do the Christian thing, much less do it.

Anyway, I suppose this horrid teacher should get back to being mean to her kids. :-)