Let me guess: you thought that, as a teacher, you’d be “in charge” of a room, be unsupervised most of the day, have an easy time of it (after all, they’re not exactly learning calculus) and have three months vacation every year. Cushy job. Right?

It’s not about you. It’s about the kids. You’re supposed to be patient with them, leading by example and preparing them to be good citizens. You should feel very, very ashamed of yourself and I sincerely hope you reevaluate your choice of profession before you ruin another child’s opportunity for education; perhaps a nice job in the custodial circuit?

*pulls out the brain bleach and a bucket*

Ah yes, because kids should be encouraged to tell the truth…right up until the truth doesn’t match the script they’re to play to.

I say: let’s hope, let’s pray it’s not the latter, but rather- the former. Wouldn’t you?

However, I’m not in your esteemed position, and because of such, I presumed differently.He could be a smart ass. That could be the case, and that he’s simply “sucking up” to get attention, or to put his mother in bad light.
Or, in another light, he could simply be right: maybe his mother does forget- maybe his food, clean clothes, picking him up from places… And maybe she doesn’t listen- doesn’t listen to him ask for meals, console him when he cries, or answer him when he’s calling for her- trying to find out where she is.

We don’t know. We are not Jacob.
From his note you can only surmise two things: that he is a smart-aleck, and that his mother is parenting well, or perhaps, that he loves his mother- that she is special-even when she doesn’t listen, and forgets-that she is his mother, and he loves her regardless-that he knows no other type of mother.

I say: let’s hope, let’s pray it’s not the latter, but rather- the former. Wouldn’t you?