{"id":107,"date":"2010-12-15T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:35","slug":"hostile-worker-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Hostile Worker Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wtf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111\" title=\"wtf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wtf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>This school year I have noticed an usually high level of hostility from the school office workers, including school prinicpals and the like. The subtext of every single conversation is basically &#8220;shut the fuck up and go away&#8221;. Conversations are very short, simmering with some sort of impatient rage and very VERY unhelpful.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, this year my youngest wore her blue skinny jeans to school. Now they weren&#8217;t denim blue, but kind of a pastel powder blue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinsonisd.org\/default.aspx?name=pi.dress_code\" target=\"_blank\">Please note that the dress code only specified BLUE. No shade caveats. Just blue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get a phone call from a crying, distraught 13 year old that she needs another pair of pants because her jeans are not dress code. I ask why and she said they were the wrong color blue.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinsonisd.org\/default.aspx?name=pi.dress_code\"> The dress code page I PRINTED OUT 30 days before school started has no reference to SHADE of blue<\/a>. It says all pants must be blue, khaki, grey or black.\u00a0 I ask to speak to the office worker bee(which turns out to be a very hostile hispanic woman) and she tells me that all jeans must be DENIM BLUE. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinsonisd.org\/default.aspx?name=pi.dress_code\" target=\"_blank\">Uh, that isn&#8217;t on the dress code you have POSTED on the school website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She informs me in the iciest tones that THEY had a school MEETING and INFORMED the students that blue means denim blue. Well happy days. Why the HELL didn&#8217;t you tell ME, yanno the one that PURCHASES school clothes? And how about you refunding the $60 bucks those jeans cost because I purchased them based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinsonisd.org\/default.aspx?name=pi.dress_code\" target=\"_blank\">FRICKEN POSTED DRESS CODE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and when said daughter gets home, she tells me they had to round up 3 teachers to have a quorum to determine if the jeans were the wrong color.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone see a problem with this? How about the staff err in favor of the CHILD? Since when does school equal a police state? And how does this particular action &#8220;promote self esteem and a positive learning environment&#8221;? You just criminalized my daughter on the COLOR OF HER JEANS?<\/p>\n<p>How fucked up is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This school year I have noticed an usually high level of hostility from the school office workers, including school prinicpals and the like. The subtext of every single conversation is basically &#8220;shut the fuck up and go away&#8221;. Conversations are very short, simmering with some sort of impatient rage and very VERY unhelpful. For instance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}