Today we had our biweekly Pizza Patio Party. For those of you who don't know what that is, let me 'splain. Kids get Wizard Stars for making good choices. When they have ten Wizard Stars they turn them into the office and are invited to have a pizza lunch at the outside benches with me and the VP. It's a nightmare, but a great reinforcer of good behavior. The kids also get a button that says "I'm a Wizard Star!" Good deal for the kids. So get this. After our staff development meeting, I go back to my office to move piles of paper around (that's what I usually do after 4:00). I notice there's a message on my voice mail. Immediately I think bad news - just a hunch. So I listen to the message. It's from an angry parent who is mad at me because I didn't give her kid a piece of pizza at the Pizza Patio Party. She wants me to call her immediately. So I call the parent. She's angry. She asks me how come I didn't give her kid a piece of pizza. (What I want to say is "Well mam, it's because she's a little shit who disrespects her teacher and I'm shocked she was able to get ten Wizard Stars. She must have conterfeited them or stole them." - but I didn't.) I tell her we served almost a hundred kids pizza today and that sometimes we mistakenly miss a kid or two, but usually the kid will say "excuse me, you forgot to give me pizza." I explained to the mother that I'm not a bad man who doesn't give kids pizza that they've earned. I further explained that if her kid had said something I certainly would have given her pizza. Of course I apologized and told the mom that I would invite the kid to the next Patio Party. Can you f$%king believe this???? I probably shouldn't be writing about this, but it really pissed me off. AND GET THIS...this morning at a speech IEP for a private school kid, the parent was telling me how she didn't want her kid to go to our school because we are one of the lowest schools in the district...oh yeah...that's what she said. I could feel the steam coming out of my ears. Needless to say, I public schooled the mom on how well we are doing and that WE ARE NOT one of the lowest schools in the district! Just another one of my typical days. I know you're jealous!