Teacher's Pet

One evening CB (Crazy Bitch) called the house to speak to Kelly. Upon getting on the phone Kelly began apologizing profusely to CB for not calling her that day. She then promised over and over and over again that she would not forget tomorrow. We found this odd considering Kelly had just arrived home from school... when was she have supposed to have called her?? We then heard Kelly ask if Pat (a teacher at Kelly's school) was going to come and remind her.

Jack asked Kelly about this when she got off the phone. Kelly told us that during the days that she is with us, that a teacher from another grade whom CB has befriended at her school has been coming down to her classroom at lunch time when all the other children are going out to play and telling Kelly that "its time to go call your mom". Kelly then spends her lunch time talking in the office on the phone to her mother. We asked Kelly how she felt about this. She said she was sad that she didn't get to play with her friends but that her mother would get very upset with her if she didn't.

Jack of course was livid. CB calls our house all the time when Kelly is here. There is no need to be interrupting her time at school. Jack was also very upset that a teacher would actually be encouraging this. Jack called and spoke to the principal, the principal did not initially believe that could be going on. That they most certainly do not encourage children to be calling home to their parents every day. That at school they try to teach children independence. The principal said she would go and speak to Kelly's teacher and to the teacher Pat to see what was really going on.

When the principal called back, she informed Jack.. that Kelly's teacher had had no idea this was happening and when she went and spoke with Pat that she admitted that she had been doing it. The prinicpal assured Jack that it would NOT be continuing.

I was initially shocked that a teacher would be play into this, but I also recognize that CB is extremely manipulative....and very convincing in her tales of woe. I have no doubt... that she painted a terrible tale to Pat... as I have heard from other people that she has told the same stories to that... ohhhhh... she's never allowed to speak to Kelly when she's at our house....ohhhh...they deny me telephone access.... poor Kelly is so traumatized by it... ohhhh poor Kelly suffers extreme seperation anxiety and needs constant contact with her mother. Oh yes........ someone does suffer seperation anxiety.. but it sure isn't the child.