After posting about my angry student, I decided to call home. His mother gave me some interesting information. It seems he felt I was picking on him because I laughed when another student called him a name. Now, if you have read any of my posts, you will hopefully see that I could never ever do something like this.
I tried to explain to his mother that I would never want to hurt a child like that. If I ever laughed at a mean comments toward a child, it was unintentional and probably misunderstood. Her response was that she was glad her husband came out here to deal with it, because she would not have been able to keep her cool. I am at a loss. I apologized a million times and told her I would like to meet with him one-on-one to apologize. She demanded his step dad be there when I do it.
So now I look forward to this afternoon's meeting when I anticipate getting yelled at and berated for doing something I didn't do, even though I am trying to make it right.
By the way, my principal's solution is to have him go to ISS instead of sitting in my class after our state testing is over. On one hand, I feel like that will give him the space he wants. On the other hand, is that acknowledging that ISS is a better place than my class?