Hola Sober August

Meeting with the Principal

It’s still amazing to me how things can just pop up out of the blue. Everyday life experiences then all of a sudden you are back there, in your childhood, on the face of it the grown adult, 3 degrees (and a maths GCSE Grade B) yet sitting there feeling every bit that naughty school kid that almost everyone hates. Sat in the headmaster’s office as I talked through the concerns I am having with my 4YO daughter’s school. I have primed myself up, got support from my coach to make sure I manage my emotions and become a breaking mess. I have spent months and months emotional; stressed and anxious as a result of constant battles with the teachers and I can’t take anymore.

As the universe does it sends me the most unsubtle sign that ‘I’ve got this’ and actually to point out it knows exactly what it’s doing. She discusses her ‘adamant’ and ‘wilful ways’ and that she constantly says ‘no’. Then she builds it up and the teacher tells me ‘there was an incident’ that they haven’t told us about, my head thinks what the fuck now!!!! I smile and take a breath. And as I look the directly into the teachers eyes (probably a bit too creepy for her), I brace myself for what sort of shit storm is going to come. She goes on to say, ‘we have a fire alarm button and Sophie was trying to press it. When we told her no, she then went back continually to try and press it’. OMG it was like history repeating itself.

I had indeed as a child decided that the allure of a fire alarm button was all too much; pressed it and evacuated a full school as a result. I laugh inside; I know it’s not ok to laugh on the outside. They would not have got it at all. I tried to explain to them and advised this was something I did and hoped they would see some irony in it but they didn’t and I quickly realised this was my very own gift from the world. Truly. I went on to say how the relationship between myself and the teachers had become fraught and actually poor Sophie whilst was a concern appeared to be takin a back seat in the Emma V’s Teacher showdown.

Emma'''s Diary

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