Here's the story. I was at lunch yesterday and my phone rings, I notice that the number is from my son's school and immediately I groan b/c lately he has been getting phantom illnesses which makes him call me. Here's how the conversation went:
Me: Hello
Principal: Hell, I am trying to reach M's mother
Me: This is her
Principal: This is your childs principal and I need to talk to you, he is not in trouble but he did come see me today.
Me: umm ok (in my head, oh crap oh crap oh crap)
Principal: You son's teacher sent him to me today b/c while in vocabulary class he and another little boy got into a conversation about weed. When I asked him why he was talking about it, he said it just popped into his head.
Me: what?? (in my head, WTF??? where did he get this, what did I say OMFG I am that parent)
Principal: Now I know with things going on right now he has probably heard some things in the news but I told him he cannot talk about them in school and I hope you will reiterate that to him at home.
Me: Oh I will (in my head, did we even talk about Michael Phelps, what about MTV what has he been watching I thought I was there too, did I miss something?? Oh no I have that kid! )
Principal: He is not in trouble and he is concerned that would call you but I had to. He also wouldn't eat lunch today he said he was sick over the weekend and didn't think he should eat.
Me: Thank you for calling I will talk to him this evening.
Hang up
So now the freak out starts! Why was he talking about Weed, what does he know about it? Where did he hear about it. I always joke that I have a teenager, my child has always been an old man stuck in a little kids body but I am not ready for this I cannot have this talk with him, OMG!
So what do I do? I call my dad who laughs b/c his grandson is talking about weed, then he tells me to use Michael Phelps as an excuse and he thinks the school over reacted. What do I hear. Na na na na your kid talks about weed.
Then the question what in vocabulary class could have him think of weed?????
So I continue freaking out during lunch and the rest of the day at work, thankfully I had a boat load waiting for me when I got back to distract me from this some what.
I race home to get him from my aunt who picked him up early and fed him. Good now I can just talk to him...
Me: So how was school today?
Child: Good (looks nervous)
Me: How was vocabulary?
Child: fine
Me: (annoyed now) did anything happen in school today?
Child: No.
Me: Ok now your principal called today about your conversation.
Child: Oh
Me: I am not mad at you I just have to know what made you think of weed in vocabulary.
This is where he goes into a long story about homophones and talking about those in class and I am thinking great he thought of weed as a homophone! Nope he just thought of Michael Phelps. (ok so we did talk about this last night how could I forget??). It turns out all he said was that Michael Phelps got in trouble for smoking weed. Another student heard this and told the teacher who promptly sent mine to the office.
So my freak out was not necessary but OMG!!! The teacher didn't even bother to figure out what was going on??? I wonder is my child going to be known as the one who brought up weed in 3rd grade???
I know a few years from now this will be funny to me and I am sure I am going to tease him about this as a teen but right now I am still a little freaked.
Just thought I would share my lovely day with you.
1 comment:
hopefully the conversations sparked by Phelps' foolish pics will not cause conservative Americans to go into some biblical fervor and further criminalize the reefer. the lesson should be either once u become an olympic athlete, you can smoke all you want, or if olympians smoke weed and break records, maybe its not as destructive as our culture like to pretend it is. i didnt even know what weed was until college, and plan on telling my kids to wait until then to learn as i did. you can always console yourself with this simple mantra- at least its not meth.
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