I thought it would be 6th grade January 12, 2010
Posted by spacemom in : Parenting 101 , trackbackBefore the end of school for the Christmas (pardon me, Winter) Break, we had the glorious treat of Miss Soleil in a totally pissy mood. After several hugs and grumps, she finally told us that the principal had taken her magic wand away. The Unitarian Church in town does a massive Halloween Haunted House every year. The past few years have been "Hogwarts". They gave everyone a "wand" and you returned them at the end. This year, they departed from Harry Potter and gave the wands away. The wand itself is a small dowel attached to a handle. Very clever, in my opinion. Soleil has been told that it is not allowed in school as it may be seen as a weapon and our school has one of those no tolerance policies on weapons.
Turns out, our child chose to take the wand to after school (which it is okay), but brought out her wand during bus line. She was happily changing her friends to water goblets when the principal came over and took it.
To her credit, she was terribly honest about this and told us while in tears because she knew she had broken our trust. I told her that I expected her to write a letter of apology to the principal and ask for her wand back if she promised not to take it out as school again. She questioned if she could control herself and I did explain that should would lose it again if she did bring it and we would support the principal. We also explained that there would be no punishment from us because she was quite honest with us.
The next day, the principal called me to relay the story. It appears that Soleil left one little point out. Before the principal took the wand away, she was asked by a teacher to hand it over. Soleil chose not to, instead declaring "Avada kedavra" while pointing her wand at the teacher. (Ok, he claimed she threatened the teacher with it, She later told us what she did). If you know the Harry Potter universe, you will recognize this as the Killing Curse. So yeah, my kid threatened to kill a teacher. Oy vey.
We explained that that was an "unforgivable curse" (a la Harry Potter universe). She was quite upset when we explained that her wand would be broken in two and she could go to Azkahban (the wizard prison) for that.
She wrote an apology to both the principal and the teacher. She got her wand back.
And Jay and I did a fist bump that our first call from the principal was Soleil and in 2nd grade. I swore it wouldn’t be until 6th!
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Har! “Threatening to kill a teacher”! Oy! Fer gosh’ sake, she’s in second grade and pointing a MAGIC WAND. That’s about as serious a “threat” as, say, stomping your feet and saying “You meanie-head! I hope you fall over and die!”
I think I’ll go off and grumble about modern society’s lack of common sense and overdose of fear mongering…