Julien’s English teacher started harassing him and making inappropriate comments regarding his absences. He has no missing work and only one missing quiz in her class and she is failing him. These teachers have decided, regardless of verification from the school nurse and numerous doctors notes on file that nothing is wrong with him and there is no reason for him to be missing school. So instead they’ve become disagreeable and have nasty attitudes.

His statistics teacher even attempted to refuse notes to Julien while printing out notes for another student absent with a shoulder injury. He was informed by his assistant that what he does for one student he must do for all, his assistant happens to be Scarlet – who is incredibly eloquent and articulate while be very assertive when she is dealing with teachers either on hers or Julien’s behalf.

After the issue with the English teacher (this is really strike 3, she’s been an asshole on two other occasions just since winter break) I called her and she pretended not to “hear” me after I asked who I was speaking with and she identified herself – and then hung up on me. I wrote an email out that she received about 15 minutes later and never responded to. Instead she began threatening the class she was in (Scarlet’s English class) with a quiz that they were “guaranteed to fail” because she hadn’t taught them the information and felt she could do this as punishment because she was flipped out over my email.

Needless to say, my blood pressure shot up, I got sick, S.O. was on an excavation for an oil company, so my dad went down to the school and talked to the principal. He demanded a meeting with all the teachers, the counselor, and the principal which the principal agreed and told my dad that he would call him either Thursday or Friday.

Instead the principal called Julien into his office THE NEXT DAY to basically intimidate him. He told him that he had talked to all of his teachers and they all just loved him but said it was his absences causing all the trouble. Then he told him he was reducing him down to 3 classes. And, somehow was implying that he did Julien a HUGE favor because the school only gets paid for the student if they are there for at least FIVE classes. Instead of seeing that this kid had been through ENOUGH – my dad had already detailed his past and current health issues the day before – he attempted to pressure and guilt my kid because he had him alone. This meant removing Julien’s physics class and leaving him with statistics, English, and Economics. Julien came home in tears and became very sick. Let me make this really clear, my son doesn’t cry. I’ve seen him in excruciating pain and the kid doesn’t break like that. He is so beaten down, exhausted, and still in pain that he just can’t take it anymore.

So my dad went down there and reamed the principal a new asshole telling him he has no right to call Julien in without calling me or my dad first. The principal tried to pull some shit about Ethan being 18 and my dad said, no, I don’t think so, he’s student here and you already knew that myself and his parents were involved.

Fortunately, my dad is in some club with a district office employee who told him how to work the system and when my dad started talking about filing some 504 paperwork and calling state and county offices at first the principal attempted to explain away 504 (a mandatory FEDERAL law that no school is exempt from) as only applying to kids with serious mental or physical handicaps. However, my dad assured him he knew all about the 504 and that it did apply here the jerkoff started back pedaling and admitted to not even talking to the stats teacher who has been a total asshole. By the time my dad was done with him he said that whatever schedule Ethan wanted he could have and that he would make sure the teachers would work with him. And yet, we still aren’t done…

It’s all just a bunch of ass covering bullshit.

That was yesterday. After all of that bullshit Julien then went in to see his pain specialist and they charged us a $70 co-pay because my mother and her boyfriend (S.O.’s boss) have started fucking around with the insurance plan. We’ve only been having a $20 co-pay up until now. There is no telling how much the asthma medication I have to be on is going to cost us now considering that birth control just jumped up to $122 with their little plan change.

To make things worse, on the way home my mother and brother pulled up behind Julien. He realized it was them and maneuvered through traffic to get away from them and she ran a red light to catch up with him. She pulled up next to him at a stoplight and started HONKING HER HORN at him.

After all the shit he’s been through that stupid bitch started causing a scene IN PUBLIC – IN TRAFFIC while my son was in a car ALONE DRIVING.

Julien turned up his music and pretended to be bopping his head along to it as if he couldn’t hear anything. That’s what a gentleman does… unlike her little mutant who cuts people off in traffic and flips them off.

I thought things were getting better… I really was so optimistic… and now… I don’t know anymore… I just can’t keep going on like this.

Updated 01/30/10
Yesterday Julien arrived to second period English to have the teacher (the witch) tell him that he had been dropped from her class. She gave him a call slip to the counselor’s office. On his way he called me and I called my dad (since Julien had my car) and he rushed to the school. In the interim Julien spoke with the principal who actually started lecturing him on his attendance and threatening to put him in home studies. Julien told him, “This is an issue with two teachers, my stats teacher and my English teacher. I’m carrying B’s in my other classes. It makes no sense that I would be failing English over attendance when all of my work is made up!”

The principal said, “Well, see you’re doing what you should be doing, you’re a good student.” (WTF? – mom commentary) to which Julien replied, “Well, then why are we having an issue?”

The principal didn’t have a good response to that and this whole exchange took place in front of the school nurse who happens to have Julien’s back. About that time my dad walked in and as he was waiting for the secretary to get the principal the principal tried to call my dad to cover his ass. Instead he nearly shit himself when he found out my dad was standing on the other side of his door. My dad made it a point to check in with the nurse first and sent Julien home because he was too amped up and was sick over all this. The nurse also noted that it was her recommendation he be sent home. Then my dad had it out with the principal and basically had him on the run essentially. Monday Julien is back in all of his classes, attendance is no longer an issue, and the principal is supposedly going to tell the teachers that they have to allow him any and all work requests and are not to penalize him in any way for absences.

We’ll see. Just in case, I’ve already looked up the state education code that requires them to do this anyway and I’ve printed it out and given it to both Julien and Scarlet. And, my dad plans to force communication between us, the principal, and the teachers.