I hate my teacher! I hate my teacher! You wouldn't believe what she did today.

You would not believe. Mom. Look, Mom. I hate her.

I hate her. I'm listening, I'm listening. Everyone. She picks on

everyone. Yeah, yeah, I'm listening honey.

Um, you know what? Could you... Do you want to know what she did?!

Honey... What about Marcus? What about Marcus?

Do you remember the other day? Yeah, I remember Marcus. Here take this. Here.

Just, here, go ahead, just start drying. What?

What? Whatever.

You don't need to have that... Honey, just give me the dish then.

Give me the dish. Alright. Good. Okay.

Mom. Mom.

I hate my teacher! I hate my teacher! You do not come in here this way. You do not

come in here yelling at me! What do you think you're doing?!

Hang that up. Hang that up right now. This is ridiculous.

I've had it with your mouth.

I have had it with your mouth. But mom! You want me to do this again?

No. You pick that up. You pick that up

right now! No! You pick this up!

Mom! Mom!

I hate my teacher! I hate my teacher! I

absolutely hate my teacher. You would not believe what she did to Marcus, you wouldn't believe what she did to me.

Listen, you like your teacher. She's nice, honey. You like your teacher. Do you know what she did to Marcus?

Do you care what she did to Marcus? No, it doesn't matter what she did to Marcus,

honey,

you know, you're good at school. You're a good student, sweetie. You're a

good student.

You like her and you're good at school. You're a nice person, sweetheart, you're a

nice person.

So you just have to remember that. Remember how you're a nice person and

you like

people. Yeah, yeah, you do. Yeah.

Yeah. You want a little snack?

Want me to get you a snack? Okay.

Okay let's just have, I'm sure I've got some ice cream in the

fridge. How about that? Okay. That'd be good.

Thank you mom.

Here you go, sweetie, here, you know what, I'll just get you

a spoon. Here you go. Enjoy. I can have the whole thing?

Of course. Of course. It's better now, isn't it? It

feels better now, doesn't it?

Mom! Mom! What? What happened?

I hate my teacher! What did she do? What did she do? You wouldn't believe what she did!

You know what she did to Marcus first? First, she wrote his name on the board and she sends him out of the

room and then you know what she did to me? She humiliated me in front of the whole class! She is not

getting away with this. She is not going to get away with this. She shouldn't!

You know what? I'm calling her right now.

You call her!

Mom, do something. She was horrible. You know what she said to me? She said

I was stupid. No, I can't wait!

She said I was stupid. She said you... You know what we're taking you out of that school. In front of the class! In front of the class!

I'm going to call. We're getting you out of that school, honey. We are going to get you out of that

school. We are going to make this better for you.

Nobody treats my girl that way.

Oh mom, thank you, thank you. You're welcome.

I'm the one that you love. I'm the one that takes care of you.

Yes. You're the best. You're the best.

I know. I am the best. Thank you. And we have a test tomorrow.

Oh, I'll help you do it. Well if I don't have to go, I don't have to do it.

Oh that's right. Yeah, we don't even need her.

Mom! Mom! You wouldn't believe it.

I hate my teacher! I hate my teacher!

You would not believe what she did to me today. You wouldn't believe what she did

to Marcus.

Yes and you're going to tell me. Take a deep breath. But, mom,

okay, mom. Okay.

But I've got to tell you. Okay. Okay.

Okay.

She calls us up in front of the school, right up at the front of the board,

and she has us do these problems. Marcus goes up first, you know, of course everybody laughs.

They're always laughing at Marcus. So he walks up there, then he left and I'm like I'm not going,

I'm not going,

I put my head down and you know what she did? She called on me anyway. She calls on me,

I go up there, I work the problem, and right in front of everybody she says,

"Well you didn't get it right. You're not working hard enough." Oh, yeah.

And you were hoping she would really understand how hard that was for

you.

You were hoping that she would understand that you were really taking a risk

to go up there.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean that was scary to walk up in front of everybody. It is scary. It is scary to walk up there.

And you know math isn't my strong

thing. Yeah, yeah and it would have been so much more helpful

if she had been able to really give you that encouragement, that confidence and

yet,

you did handle it. Yeah I did. Yeah, you did handle it. You got through it. Yeah, and you know, nobody

laughed.

At least Marcus. Yeah, we'll work on that, too. We'll work on

you might be helpful to Marcus, too.

Right now, what might be helpful to you? What might be helpful to you right now

and then we'll work on what might be helpful to you the next time she calls

on you and you don't know what to do.

Okay so right now, I just kind of, want to go outside and walk around a little bit. Okay.

Yeah because that's one of the ways... But I do need help with math. You know what. I'm feeling

your hands and I can feel that you're really tense.

Yeah, you're still frustrated, you're still feeling frustrated so

take a walk outside, we'll work on the math,

sounds like a plan and then you know what we're going to do, too?

When that moment comes when you're sitting at your desk,

what is it that will help you? We'll find that.

Okay. Alright, alright, I'm going outside. See you, mom!

Oh, honey, your pack. Okay,

I'm going to drop that over here. See you a little bit later!