Just had a phone call from my kiddos school.
“Kiddos attendance has dropped below 89%, mostly because you kept giving him lots of time off the last term”
Well, I am terribly fucking sorry that my grandmother being sick and dying in a hospice over 50 miles away was inconvenient for you. When I next see her, I shall have words with her about her thoughtlessness. - God forbid that you should take into consideration that we were having to drive back and forth everyday because the nurses kept changing their minds, family members kept saying “Quick get here, she’s going”, worrying that if any of us went home to sleep, we’d wake up to hear she’d gone, that she was just being brave and actually suffering more than she was letting on or just the general trauma for a young child of losing one of his most beloved family members in a cruel and almost horribly invisible and unexplainable way..
I just called them up and said, “well sorry, but I’m not sorry. My grandmother was dying and he had the right to be there to say goodbye, You don’t like it? Fine me then. I’ll pay it, but nothing will change my mind that him being there with the family and as a consequence, off school was the right thing to do.”
Kiss my ass, fucking school... Wankers.