Parents...sigh

Thursdays are early release days here in Central Kitsap School District. This means the kids that I normally get at 330, get here at 2 on Thursdays. A half hour later, I need to load everyone up in the van and go to the school and get Paige and Ben (they catch a bus at THEIR school, ride for 40 minutes and get dropped off at the school near our house). All the kids were lined up getting ready to go out the door and one of my daycare kids POWER puked all over the front entryway. LOVELY. Thankfully he managed to get it mainly on the area rug, which means I tossed it outside, hosed it off and will throw it in the washer tonight. State regulations require that children who puke at daycare need to be picked up ASAP by their parents and cannot return for 24 hours. Keep in mind that this is the 'problem' child I have. He is fourth grade...nine years old. I have been asking his parents since September to have him tested both mentally and physically by his pediatrician as there is something going on. As a mother and as someone who has worked with kids for years, I KNOW there is something wrong. He doesn't have the basic academic skills every fourth grader should have. He is incapable, or unwilling to follow directions. His parents could really care less quite frankly. No testing has been done. These are the parents who asked ME to show up at his parent/teacher interview...and these are the parents who made a dental and medical appointment for the younger child and then told ME I was taking him ( I said no!). So I call up dear old Dad and say 'C has just power puked. He has no fever, but the State requires that he be picked up ASAP'. Dads response? "Oh just lovely! Just wonderful! I'll call J (his wife) and see what we can do. I'll get back to you". It isn't that he has a tough boss (he works for his dad as a mechanic!) or that his wife can't get off work (she is a bus driver and her routes can be taken care of by other drivers). It's that they just REALLY don't want to be bothered. It breaks my heart.
They are the kinds of people who should never have had kids. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I can't WAIT to close daycare at the end of June and head back to college! Yup, I am headed back to get my bach...YAY!

Hugs to all,
Jaye