My son has been in so much trouble at school lately (behaviour and schoolwork) that his teachers and counselor and vice principal all wanted to meet collectively with my son, his mother, and I. They contacted she and I last week by e-mail and requested that we meet today. Meeting time was set at 9:35 to 10:25. They said in the e-mail that they felt it was important that our son "see that we are a united front and that we are extremely concerned about him."
I agreed and looked forward to the meeting. This morning right before the meeting was to start, the vice principal informed me that she had just received communication from Ex that she didn't want to do it the way they had planned. She didn't want my son, she , and I to do the meeting at the same time. She wanted separate meetings...one that included me, and one that included her. Son was supposed to be there at 9:35 but was AWOL. He never showed up. They even paged him overhead throughout the school.
So I met with them while Ex waited in the office. Each teacher told me of the behaviour problems they were having with him, and of his 'reluctance' to do his schoolwork in their class. Then the vice principal told me of his behaviour problems that she was dealing with. I then told them that my son meant the world to me and that I was committed to helping him in whatever way I could.
My son never showed up during our meeting. The male teachers were searching the restrooms for my son when I left, and they all were getting ready to have the same meeting with my Ex. Don't know if they found my son and made him go to that meeting or not.
I'm very disappointed. I was looking forward to my son seeing that we were all united in our concern for him and our desire for him to do better. I'm gonna send him a text later letting him know that I was looking forward to seeing him today (I haven't seen him or heard from him since he left on Jan. 11th) and that I love and miss him.
