Child Slavers wanted.

[reynardo]

Phone call late last night from Ratboy's teacher. He's been staying with her to finish off the term, and this last week they had an excursion to Canberra.

And because he's repeated a year, this is the second trip to Canberra he's been on at this level.

So he decided that he wasn't going to go on the night part of the excursion - he took himself off to bed at the motel. Without telling anybody. And the "pairs" system didn't work because his partner (nice kid, rather quiet) didn't tell the teachers that Adam wasn't there until they realised that one kid was partner-less.

So his teacher and I had a long chat. I'm not going to go down and pick him up - 'tis better far that he finish out the excursion. He's had it explained to him that he's upset, worried and inconvenienced a lot of people. I'm going to try and have a chat with the school counsellor tomorrow. And I have asked his teacher to leave him at any one of the embassies for countries that have child slavery.

I reckon we ought to be able to get a mortgage payment at least for him.

Comments

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Now now... You cant use him for spare parts if you sell him.

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

If you're feeling really bad about it, well, you have both my cell number and my house phone number now, and I can possibly get you to call at a time when my mother is home, and if you have any specific questions or problems that you know of, she's not only a Montessori teacher of many years experience, and a Montessori school owner for the past 17 years, (both of which are shameless irrelevant pluggings, but listen to this next part) and has studied child psychology before. I think she might be able to offer you some insights that I can't.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

She's also managed to turn out a well-spoken individual who has a sense of who he is and can converse at a reasonable level with other people - I might just do that. Although, alas, your numbers were emailed, yes? And the motherboard just died...