COVID-19 (Blog 1)

This is odd...We are well into this COVID-19 quarantine and this is the first blog I'm putting out...The old me that wrote daily would have been all over this shit...But my writing slipped...But as I have been feeling myself getting more and more in a funk, I started thinking it was a good time to start exercising some demons...Get the rants out...Just let it all fly...The good, the bad and the ugly....

So, here in Pennsyltucky, since early March school in the traditional sense is no more for the year...My high school senior like so many other have lost out on all the big Senior moments...Spring Musical cancelled, concerts cancelled, no Prom, no Graduation...It's a big bag of shit for the class of 2020....

But then we come to the at home, online schooling...As my family sits here watching Global Citizen At Home Together, there was this great piece about amazing teachers are being and the great shit they are doing to stay connected with and teach their students...That's great! I'm pro-teacher...Teachers should be paid more...Teachers are great...That said...WTF!?!

Teachers here in my Township are not impressing me at all...They aren't teaching my kids shit...They send an email of what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by...They aren't going over material with the kids before a quiz or test...The kids are going over it themselves...They're teaching themselves...My oldest works with my youngest, because fuck that new math...That shit makes my head want to explode...

I see all these stories of teachers going above and beyond and I see my kids teachers sending an email that says do X, Y, Z, A, B, C, and have it done by this day...Are you shitting me...I honest to God find myself wondering why the fuck are these teachers getting paid their full salary but my friends working at Walmart can't get hazard pay for dealing with the panicky public crashing the store for toilet paper! 


I'm sure this whole thing threw teachers for a loop, and I'm sure they care, and I've got a feeling that not every teacher is doing the intense above and beyond shit they love to show on the ABC news....Thank you to those that are...Those that aren't, I'm still paying taxes...Taxes that go to the school system...You're still getting your full salary...Knuckle up...Step up your game, or give your check to grocery store worker who would be lucky if they make half of what you do.

Stay Healthy

Have a drink

I'm Proud of My Son, Not His School

If you read my LAST post, you know my kids' school really pissed me off this week...And two days later I am still pissed...The school has not responded to either of my wife's emails, (one angry, one apologetic for the angry one, but explaining some of the frustration.) or my very angry email...After humiliating him at the bullshit awards ceremony on Wednesday, he didn't go to school Thursday...He was embarrassed and upset, and my wife was pissed and didn't care if he stayed home...I wanted him to go, be the better person...But really, should I have to expect my 10 year old son to be the bigger person when his teacher is 70-ish and his principal is in her mid 40's? He went today and we heard nothing from the school. He did get an apology from another student that he didn't get any awards...So if the kids notice that the adults shit on another kid, that's fucked up...

I have talked to some other parents recently and heard some things...Some unhappiness with things that go on there...We put the kids there because they promoted a "zero tolerance" policy towards bullying...I had always felt the term bullying has gotten overused...It seemed trendy...And that maybe we are making our kids too soft...But after my daughter was physically assaulted at her old school, and the kid got a tickle on the wrist for it, I was in with a "zero tolerance" policy....But from my talks, I now know of three families that have removed their kids, or a kid because of bullying and the schools lack of doing anything about it...they all seemed to get the brush off and saw no punishment for the offenders...

There was also a little girl from the school who's hair briefly caught fire at a mass where the kids were carrying in candles...No one from the school ever contacted the family just to check in and make sure everything was okay...Instead, the mother just gets dirty looks because she dropped a F-bomb in the church hallway when it happened and she putting her daughter smoldering hair out...

My son is a high-strung, nervous, sensitive, emotional kid, with eczema that makes him fidget, and A-D-D that makes him fidget more...We talked with the Principal and his teacher earlier in the year, because he said he wanted to leave...He was nervous to go to school most days...He felt picked on, and excluded, and that no one liked him...From talking things out with him, and them, some of this was built up in his head. He would hold something in that happened 3 weeks ago, and pile it onto something that happened last week, and today, and so on, and it would blow up in him...They said they would keep an eye on him, and talk with the students about how they should treat one another...There was never anything major that happened after that but there were dumb things here and there that bothered him more then the average kid...It is what it is...

But they knew all this going in, so on Wednesday when every kid in his class had their name called at least twice, and he stood there in front of the whole school not getting his name called, it hurt us as parents, and it validated all his fears...He had to work his ass off, and his grades were good...There was no justification for what they did...

Was he that difficult? I doubt it...

Is it because we aren't sending them back there because we can't afford it, and because he was unhappy there? 

Is it that they don't like me, and they took it out on him? I hope not...If so, I'll personally drive them to hell and watch them burn...

The fact that they have remained quiet and not even, at least offered an apology just makes me more angry and frustrated...It doesn't seem like the right actions from people that teach  Christian morals...Love, respect, forgiveness, kindness, compassion...Sure, I sent and angry email, and wrote an angry blog, and I stand by those...But I'm not the one riding around on a religious high horse with a "zero tolerance" policy...I have my own Zero Tolerance Policy...You fuck with my kids, I'm gonna light you up!

I'm hoping this is the last I have to say about this...My wife wants me to just drop it...But if I don't vent My heart might blow out of my chest while watching what I'm sure will be a stressful Rangers hockey game tonight! 

Now, My boy is looking forward...

The Beeze's Hump Day Hits (Back to School Edition)

Well The kids started school today...Then Friday my son doesn't have school, he just has some testing they were suppose to do a month ago, but they screwed up, so all the kindergartners are losing a day for an 45 minutes of one on one time with their teacher...I don't know...Last night we had an open house where we met the teachers and blah, blah, blah...Then after everyone was asleep last night, I had some alone time to think about violating the assistant principle, who looks something like this...


GO GET HER LITTLE BEEZE!

Moving on...I've noticed a trend lately, on a number of blogs I've read...People when writing about writing, are referring to it as dribble...You are all dolts! The word is DRIVEL...You dribble a Basketball...The crap you write is DRIVEL! WTF, here comes some more drivel...

Did you hear the one about Red Sox Announcer Jerry Remy's Kid? THIS one screams of class!

Word is That the NHL is going to, or already has killed the New Jersey Devils second offer to Ilya Kovalchuk...The terms haven't been released, at least last time I checked, and nothing was actually signed...Maybe it's time for the Devils to give up...They don't have the cap space for the money this egomaniac wants...Most teams don't...He wants to be the highest paid player, and he doesn't deserve it...I expect they'll be seeing him in the KHL this season...F*ck him! I wouldn't want him on my team...So he was a superstar on some awful teams in Atlanta...Way to go! He didn't give the Devils the push in the Playoffs they needed...And he rarely plays solid defense...Him, his agent, and multiple GM's have overrated him, and I love that he's not getting the insane contract he wants...

Now it's time to get to the important stuff...This is the back to school edition, but if you're sitting there home schooling your kid, you may not want to scroll any further if they are sitting next to you...




So, on this fine Hump Day, which of these teachers are you most hot for...

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As always, Read and Respond...

Later, The Beeze.