Two of PS's teachers have taken it upon themselves to assign parents "homework"--an essay about their students. This bugs the shit out of me. I have a job. I work about 10 hours a day. I spend at least an hour and a half every day commuting. When I come home I want to spend time with my kids. And when they go to bed I want to spend an hour watching tv or mindlessly surfing the internet before I collapse into bed. That is, when I get home early enough to do these things. I am excessively busy this week and have had lots of late nights and working from home. I do not want to write an essay. I spend all freaking day writing. And I have 20 years of schooling--I don't need any more fucking homework.
Hahaha--now I just got the irony of my writing on my blog while I bitch about having to write. But it's not the same. My blog is stream-of-consciousness writing. Half the time it probably makes no sense to anyone but me. I don't proofread (I'm sure you've caught that if you have ever read my blog before--DH is forever pointing out my typos). I don't take any particular effort to structure comprehensible sentences and paragraphs.
Am I being unreasonable? Am I excessively irritated about this?
For the record, I did do the fucking assignment. But I am biting my tongue to keep from adding a snarky footnote about what a PITA it is. Maybe I should call my brother. He's a middle-school teacher and would have no trouble telling me that I am just being bitchy.
5 comments:
I can see the value of writing about your kid to the teacher - but at the same time, maybe you should have been given a few weeks' notice on something like this, so you could do it at your leisure?
Seriously a PITA.
Ha that is lame. I see why they would want to do it, but it is a PITA and I'd be so tempted to write something like:
Dear suchandsuch,
I am way too f'ing busy to write an essay for you. I'm so busy I need YOU to write one for me, because you see my kid more than I do.
Thanks for the reminder, dillhole.
Love, LC
Oh, I kind of like those. But I do treat them like a blog post. Sometimes, we get a sheet of paper with a paragraph at the top, and lines on the bottom to write our essay on, and I fill the front, the back, and then attach a second page.
But last year, I know I was excited to write one for my younger daughter, and I realized months later that I never got around to it. (we didn't get due dates.)
Now that they're in 7th and 9th, and have multiple teachers all over the place, I'm guessing I'm done with the essays.
LOL, Shan--that totally cracked me up. That's exactly what I want to say.
Thanks for giving me perspective, y'all. I'm probably just extra bitchy because I'm super stressed and busy at work right now. I should be glad that my kid's teachers actually want to learn more about her.
I think the teacher's comment "fair is fair" is what really peeved me off. I've spent the last week working on a 20 page research memo and my quality time with the kids was spent watching Princess Diaries while I reviewed boxes of moldy documents. I certainly have had more homework than my kid and didn't appreciate the implication that I don't have enough to do.
Hmmm, quirky idea but I'd be pretty pissed at the thought of homework after work, too.
Good on ya for getting your homework in on time though! :p
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