Up in here! Up in here! Well I kinda did already.

It may have been a full moon. Maybe it really was PMS like my friend said. Maybe it’s that this weird-ass time in all of our lives finally broke me. But I really don’t think it’s any of those things.

I’m pretty sure I’m just sick of people who think the world revolves around them and don’t have the mental or emotional capacity to consider others.

I am a HUGE advocate for teachers and for public schools. From what I’ve seen, they bust their asses for our kids. I have several friends who are teachers, my own kids are in the public school system going on 9 years, and before all that, for 2 decades, Teara has held the bar high for me by exhibiting what a dedicated and passionate teacher is. Not because she’s getting paid the big bucks, but she honestly LOVES her students and wants to see them do well.

Cut to where I lost my mind. I see a lot of parents who can’t get past themselves or the problems within their own front door. They can’t even take one second to THINK before they post THE most bullshit complaints on our Parent Facebook page.

It’s a lot of thinly-veiled, “What? I’m just asking a question…” questions that at the root are just passive-aggressive ways of saying how miserable they are WITH EVERYTHINGGGGGG.

And the slightest error on the school or teacher’s part sends them into a tailspin where their fingers are BURNING to get on that keyboard and punch out their complaint and get all the other parents riled up.

The best part is, most of the teachers don’t have kids at the school, so they’re not even on the page to defend themselves, and even if they could, they’d probably lose their jobs.

I’ve seen so many teachers have to eat shit while these asshole parents say and do whatever they want. They deserve an award for saving their careers by not punching people in the face on a daily basis.

That’s where I come in. I absolutely can’t and won’t sit there when some BORED-ASS, WHINY, BIDDY, won’t stop bitching and it has an impact on the lives of people I care about.

Plus the fact that our public schools get so much flack that it makes people FLOCK to the charter schools like “OH THANK THE LORD YOU SAVED MY CHILD FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL!!!” It pisses me off to no extent.

A bad attitude like hers also makes the newcomers fear for what is in store for their children. I know that because of her, many have questioned if they’ve done the right thing for their child. (Don’t worry, you did.)

Oh yeah, back to the day I lost my mind. So this one biddy is always, “I don’t like this.” “I don’t like that.” “My old school did this…” “That wouldn’t fly where I’m from…” and finally, complaining about not getting a school supply list and *only* having a week to get her supplies together.

Mind you, there is a complete list on the school website but everyone told her to wait so she could modify the list and not spend so much money. So she’s actually waiting for the list from the teacher to save herself money.

Knowing that we are all in the same boat, she must’ve known that on the FB page she would’ve only gotten the mob mentality “MY TEACHER DIDN’T SEND OURS EITHER!!!” So instead, she took it to the TOWN parents page to say “how weird it was that she didn’t get the list from her school yet. Can someone give me an idea of what your teachers sent?”

Ok so let me get this straight. You had a full list but didn’t want to spend all that money if it wasn’t necessary, so instead you go to the TOWN page and ask 5 different schools what they’re buying. That makes a ton of sense. Surely it wasn’t so you could make our school look bad, right?

And btw, we’re doing remote learning. I’m sure you’re not going to need a crafting kit on the first day.

Pen and paper ✅

So I woke up that next morning with a bug up my ass. Nothing even happened that day. Maybe I dreamt about it, I don’t know. But I posted links on the FB page to the school website that would be helpful for questions that are asked over and over again.

But then I couldn’t help myself and got extremely snarky and straight up bitchy. BUT, I didn’t mention any names.

You can bet your booty that the 2nd person to reply was Little Miss Needy Pants telling me I have no right to criticize.

Excussssseeeee Meeeeeeee??????

IIIIIIIII have no right? Every single thing I’ve ever posted on that page was either helpful, supportive, kind, or in defense of a teacher who couldn’t defend themself.

She, on the other hand, well, see above.

So we went back and forth a little, and then her friend chimed in and asked if I was being serious right now.

Yes, dear, serious as a heart attack.

Oh yeah, the one asking me if I was serious thought the school was so bad that she pulled her daughter to home school her, and had written on the page, and I quote: “Literally asked my assistant to figure out how to do it legally this morning.”

Excuse me while I barf forever 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

Anyhoo… the administrator (who is also my friend) took the post down. I wasn’t done so I posted something on my page because I knew they’d be stalking me anyway.

PJ came up and saw me laughing to myself and asked, “What did you do now?” I didn’t want to tell him because I knew he wouldn’t agree with me losing my decorum and acting like an angry teenager, but I told him anyway and he rolled his eyes and walked out of the room.

Later I was texting with my friend/page administrator and she wrote that “I was acting cray.”

So I said “fineaaaaa” to both of them and took my personal post down.

But let me make this clear. I WASN’T SORRY THEN AND I’M NOT SORRY NOW!!!

I’m tired of people being allowed to walk around acting like dicks to everyone and I just have to sit here and watch it.

The next time you have something to say, like “I don’t want to only have a week to get my supply list.” Think about that teacher who has to learn a whole remote teaching program in less than a week. Or how even though it’s remote learning, they still need to get their classroom set up. Or how you can remain safe in your home if you choose to do so, but they have to still go into a building with several other people.

Think about how this past week they had to call AT LEAST 20 parents and give a 10 minute spiel to each of them, and then open it up to q&a that could last as long as a parent wanted it to – I know some were 20 minutes.

I’m no mathematician but I think that could take approximately 10 hours. You know, like the 10 hours you spend on social media complaining about how terrible everything is and how a week isn’t long enough for you to get a notebook and pencil 🙄

If I’m cray, I’m cray. I don’t care.