*Disclaimer*
This is another post where the sole reason for typing the following text is to allow the blood pressure of the individual typing to return to normal level before proceeding. With that...
Quick background: For those of you who I have met, this is no surprise, for the rest of you it probably will be.
My family is quite the Brady Bunch...no...we make the Brady Bunch look like a weekend off.
My wife's previous marriage = 5 children
My previous marriage = 1 child
Adopted from the State of CA = 4 children
Yep, 10 in all.
Anyway, to the story. Child number 3 comes home on the bus from school yesterday quite distraught. ( I am very fortuante to have a wonderful relationship with my children where they have zero problems telling me ANYTHING).
Child number 3 is facing expulsion from school for POSSIBLY bringing a weapon to school. The weapon in question is one of those gag pens purchased normally from Spencer Gifts and the like. The kind that administer a shock when the plunger is pressed.
Now child number 3, has gotten into his share of trouble with the school officials as most teen age boys do. Nothing serious, but trouble non the least, but has NEVER lied about the things he has done. He has always come clean with anything he has done, good or bad.
Apparently, child number 3 was confronted yesterday, by the school bus driver, for '"shocking" another child two days prior. When child number 3 was asked about this he responded, "Yes, but that happend 3 weeks ago.", his older brother concurred.
Well after a little more digging into the matter, child number 3 didn't even ride the bus on the day in question!! As a matter of fact, the day before the incident, the bus driver informed all of the riders that she would be taking all of them to the bus garage for 'interrigation' into a sulfur (matches) smell, that apparently no one would take responsibility for, so my three boys got a ride home with a friend's mother.
I think this has boiled down to a clear case of...'well, he's gotten in trouble before, he is obviously guilty'.
Sorry just had to vent before talking to the school this morning...