Dear Ricky's Mom

I bet you can’t guess why this blog is titled “Dear Ricky’s Mom.” Feeling good about completing my second week of school, I got the students ready to go home on the school bus. Every Friday the students have to take home their house shoes to be washed and then brought back on Monday. To make things easy we all have our students remove their house shoes and place them in their backpacks in class before walking down the hall to the elevators and shoe shelves. With most of my students ready, primarily the boys, I let the students play in the class room till it was time to leave. Boys being boys got a little wild and started to run around the class room. Shortly after, the boys came tumbling down to the ground as they all slipped on the floor, do to not wearing any shoes and Ricky takes a nice face plant. I immediately grab Ricky and hold him to comfort him but also to look at his mouth. Just my luck, he cuts his lip and there is blood but nothing to sever. I have him drink some water to rinse down the blood and I make sure everything is okay. Angela, my Korean helper, comes in the room to help me get the students on the bus and it is then that I tell her what happens. Angela immediately gives me this look of fear and explains to me that she has to now call Ricky’s mom and explain what happened and assured me that she will be very upset. I instantly respond saying, kids get hurt and there is nothing to fuss or worry about. Shortly after, Angela comes in my room and tells me Ricky’s mom is very upset and I am expected by the head office lady to write an apology letter to Ricky’s mom. I just laughed and said, if this is what I have to do I guess I will. So then I proceeded to handwrite an apology letter explaining what happened and assured her that I will do my very best to not let this happen again. How ridiculous is this, in my opinion very. Never the less it makes for a good story and this is how I ended my second week of teaching.