The Countdown is ON!!!

Has the school year ended yet? No, seriously. Has it? I am tired of chasing my son down to get his work done and actually turned in and am so ready for a break. I am so tired of dealing with the idiocy of this school, which incidentally hasn't been bad throughout much of the school year but has recently turned into a daily headache.

Yesterday's conversation was based on the fact that my son had his binder confiscated from him because it can be classified as a backpack. This binder happens to be one of those big binders that has a strap on it so he can carry it. This binder also happens to be something that he has carried around for most of the school year and has never been a problem before.

I called the school, first to verify that they were really that ignorant, and second to see what I needed to do about getting this back, since this is the last week of school and every single piece of school work that needs to be turned in this week is located in said binder.

First, I spoke with the school secretary. Now, I did not tell any of these people the reason that I was asking. I figured that I would get my answer and then go about getting it back. The school secretary was very nice and polite and claimed that she couldn't see any reason that this would be a problem but wasn't sure so she would transfer me to the counslor's office.

The counselor was very nice and seemed to understand my question but could not seem to give me a straight answer. (She would have made a great politician.) So she transferred me to the AP's office since they are the one's that actually enforce all the codes there.

I spoke with a very nice secretary who could not see why this would be a problem but she would have to check with the AP first before she told me for sure. She then came back and informed me that the AP states (now, this is the AP's take on the rule not how it is actually worded in the eleventy gazillion page handbook that I was reading through before calling the school) that if you can fit a book into the binder then it becomes a backpack.

HUH??????????

She repeated what the AP said and then told me that it was for my child's safety.

Now, every single solitary time I have been told by the school that something was for my child's safety, it has been about something that has absolutely no bearing on the conversation. I told her that I wasn't trying to make trouble, I would just come pick up the offending object and be done with it but please do not try to tell me that it is for my child's safety because that is crap. Had the AP stated that he could not carry anything that could possibly hold a gun or a knife, then they could use that excuse. (Ya know, cause the baggy ass pants that these kids wear cannot possibly hold guns or knives. I'm just saying.)

But no, I was told that he could not carry anything that could possibly hold a book. Now, nobody can tell me how come he was able to walk throughout that entire school every single day for the last 7 months with this offending object. There was even the time he was sent to the AP's office and his cell phone was confiscated for texting in class. He sat right there in the AP's office with this binder but nobody said anything about it. Guess it wasn't so important then. With a week and a half left of school, schedules to get ready, tests to study for and grades to get inputted....now is the time to worry about it.

Cause that makes alot of sense.