Okay, now I'm really 
. I asked DD to tell me about when they gave her the donated jacket. It turns out that they basically kinda forced her to accept it. She says she tried to tell them she didn't want it, and didn't need it, but they told her that she either had to put it on, or she wasn't going to be allowed to go outside for recess. That they couldn't "allow" her to play outside without a zipped jacket on. So she put it on. But last night when I asked her about it, she burst into tears, and told me the story, and she's still really upset about being made to wear it. But it wasn't the teacher; the teacher just mentioned it to the counselor, that DD didn't have a jacket that zipped, and it was the counselor who bullied her into accepting a new one.
I have a history of problems with this counselor, and with the school nurse, who are in cahoots with each other most of the time. When DD was in kindy, she had some intestinal issues, related to broad-spectrum antibiotics that she was given for pneumonia. Anyway, for about two months, she was having occasional diarrhea. Every single time she did, she's tell the teacher (even though I kept on gently advising her not to tell; she was little, and didn't understand), who would send her to the nurse, who would call me and insist on sending her home. Even when I got documentation from our ped, that the problem was not infectious, and even though DD wasn't needing help or needing to change any clothes or anything, they still kept excluding her from school. For awhile it was three days a week she was being sent home, and excluded until we got yet another all-clear note from our poor pediatrician, who bless her was so patient, and tried so hard to get them off my back. And then the counselor called me in and tried to talk to me about how maybe we needed family counseling, because clearly it wasn't "normal" for DD to keep having diarrhea, and maybe it was stress-related, and making insinuations about my care of her that were scary to me.
Anyway, these people have been a thorn in my side for ages. (Despite the fact that DD goes to school clean, dressed in clean clothes that fit (other than the jacket debacle
), and with a lunchbox full of nutritious food, and hasn't had any medical or emotional problems since that one issue cleared up.) So now I'm starting to feel like them pushing this jacket on DD was meant to be a backhanded comment on my parenting, rather than something well-intentioned but misguided.
. I asked DD to tell me about when they gave her the donated jacket. It turns out that they basically kinda forced her to accept it. She says she tried to tell them she didn't want it, and didn't need it, but they told her that she either had to put it on, or she wasn't going to be allowed to go outside for recess. That they couldn't "allow" her to play outside without a zipped jacket on. So she put it on. But last night when I asked her about it, she burst into tears, and told me the story, and she's still really upset about being made to wear it. But it wasn't the teacher; the teacher just mentioned it to the counselor, that DD didn't have a jacket that zipped, and it was the counselor who bullied her into accepting a new one.I have a history of problems with this counselor, and with the school nurse, who are in cahoots with each other most of the time. When DD was in kindy, she had some intestinal issues, related to broad-spectrum antibiotics that she was given for pneumonia. Anyway, for about two months, she was having occasional diarrhea. Every single time she did, she's tell the teacher (even though I kept on gently advising her not to tell; she was little, and didn't understand), who would send her to the nurse, who would call me and insist on sending her home. Even when I got documentation from our ped, that the problem was not infectious, and even though DD wasn't needing help or needing to change any clothes or anything, they still kept excluding her from school. For awhile it was three days a week she was being sent home, and excluded until we got yet another all-clear note from our poor pediatrician, who bless her was so patient, and tried so hard to get them off my back. And then the counselor called me in and tried to talk to me about how maybe we needed family counseling, because clearly it wasn't "normal" for DD to keep having diarrhea, and maybe it was stress-related, and making insinuations about my care of her that were scary to me.
Anyway, these people have been a thorn in my side for ages. (Despite the fact that DD goes to school clean, dressed in clean clothes that fit (other than the jacket debacle
), and with a lunchbox full of nutritious food, and hasn't had any medical or emotional problems since that one issue cleared up.) So now I'm starting to feel like them pushing this jacket on DD was meant to be a backhanded comment on my parenting, rather than something well-intentioned but misguided.
. I asked DD to tell me about when they gave her the donated jacket. It turns out that they basically kinda forced her to accept it. She says she tried to tell them she didn't want it, and didn't need it, but they told her that she either had to put it on, or she wasn't going to be allowed to go outside for recess. That they couldn't "allow" her to play outside without a zipped jacket on. So she put it on. But last night when I asked her about it, she burst into tears, and told me the story, and she's still really upset about being made to wear it. But it wasn't the teacher; the teacher just mentioned it to the counselor, that DD didn't have a jacket that zipped, and it was the counselor who bullied her into accepting a new one.
), and with a lunchbox full of nutritious food, and hasn't had any medical or emotional problems since that one issue cleared up.) So now I'm starting to feel like them pushing this jacket on DD was meant to be a backhanded comment on my parenting, rather than something well-intentioned but misguided.
