I went to watch Scout at his school performance when the principal stopped me and said, “I had a talk with Scout today.”
I said, “Let me know what it was about so I can reinforce it at home.”
And then she said, “Scout….he REALLY loves the ladies.”
Oh crap.
But then she said she had to tell him to stop chasing the girls at school because they didn’t like it.
Apparently he was really receptive and respectful.
Good, but since I had already talked to him about this exact subject, I went over to repeat myself LOUD AND CLEAR.
But as I went over to him, while he was with all four of the 1st grade classes on the risers waiting for their second performance to start, I couldn’t see Scout. Then as I walked closer, I realized that he was there….on the ground doing push-ups while Mary (a girl from his class) was sitting on his back, giggling and counting how many he was doing.
Oh crap!
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Fast forward to the very next day as I went to the school to read in the library.
I walk by the principal again.
“I had another talk with Scout today.”
Oh crap!
She “saw a group of boys playing really rough and fighting on the playground. [She] went up to them and told them that they weren’t being respectful to each other and would have to pick a different activity.”
Then Scout came forward and said, “Mrs. Scholl….I created a chasing club and yesterday you told me we couldn’t chase the girls. So we stopped. And today, I created a ‘fake fighting club’, and now you are telling us we can’t do this?! What CAN we do?”
She thought it was really funny and “admires Scout’s leadership qualities”.
Nice twist!
I asked her if they “bench” people at recess, and that I was all for him being in trouble if needs be.
She told me she liked the kids to be more active if they get in trouble, so she gives them a trash bag and has them pick up a bag of trash around the lunch tables before playing again.
OH CRAP!
You mean to tell me that the six times Scout has come home to tell me a “Hero Story” from his day, that involved him picking up a bag of trash around the lunch tables “to make it nice and clean”, was really a punishment in disguise?!
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