Mama Didn't Save the Drama

Oh my gosh, what a stressful, ridiculous day!

Each day, my students start class by grabbing their team flags, run for a lap, sit down, and take roll before we begin our sport activity. As I am waiting for all the kids to finish their lap I see a student on the ground with a few others surrounding him. I drop my grade book, run over to him to see what has happened and make sure he is OK. When I get to him I see that he is holding his head and crying. I asked him if he was OK and what happened and that is when he told me that another student kicked him in the head after he fell to the ground (he tripped). Apparently the student decided to try to jump over him rather than go around and/or help the classmate up and as he jumped he kicked him in the head! Are you freaking kidding me?

In the middle of dealing with that situation, a couple of other students come up to me and tell me that another classmate is mad at them and how that classmates mother is going to yell at them. Apparently the students mother was on campus. I kept them with me and assured them that I wouldn't allow the parent to yell or harm them. I really didn't think a parent would actually come up to them and begin reprimanding them but I wanted to make sure they felt safe in my class; they were very nervous and crying.

At this point my class is just out of control. I finally get them all together and begin a quick game of flag tag just to get them going and focused. It was very difficult because they all wanted to know what happened to the classmate that was hurt, what the drama was with the 3 girls and the mom. Finally, I got the class playing flag tag and kept the girls with me.

A couple minutes into the game, I see the mother they are talking about and I couldn't believe it, but she began walking up to me and the girls. I was thinking, well, maybe she is just going to talk to me. But NO! Of course not!! We are just going to disrupt my class farther and upset my students. So this mother comes stomping up to the girls and begins pointing her fingers at them and yelling, "you need to stop telling lies, and you need to stop spreading rumors" blah, blah, blah! I said, very sternly, "Excuse me, please do not approach my students. If you have a problem, please take it to the principal." So she left and went to the principal. I let the girls know that I would inform the principal and their teacher of the mothers inappropriate behavior.

Oh and you know what else the mother did? Before approaching the two girls, she was talking to her daughter and a friend of the daughter and said, "don't worry, "SALLY" is just a bitch!" I didn't hear this, but a number of students did and told me. I just couldn't believe how freaking inappropriate and childish this mother was.

The teacher and principal actually did come to talk to me to confirm that the mother had in fact approached the children in the manner that she did and I told them exactly what had happened. It seemed to all be resolved, through the principal, by the end of the class.

I don't know exactly what started the whole mess, but I do know that it had something to do with a boy....Geez!