The teachers awkwardly alternating who’s speaking phase.
The slight head nod at the people you only ever see at parent meetings and have never actually talked to phase.
The stopping repeatedly to hand papers to late comers phase.
The lame joke phase.
The gingery trying to explain some perfectly reasonable policy without offending a hypersensitive parent phase.
The parents ask questions that were just answered phase.
The parents upstage one another with irrationally aggressive concern for their special snowflake phase.
The second parents ask questions that were just answered phase.
The let me grasp at various reasons to be dissatisfied with this policy phase.
The last minute question that has a ridiculously obvious answer phase.
Today’s entrant: “Are boys and girls sleeping in separate hotel rooms?” A: They just said so five minutes ago. B: Regardless, are you really not sure what the answer to that question will be? 🙄
The I can leave now right? phase.
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This post is archived from my account on li.st, a social media app that shut down in 2017. Some posts have been edited slightly to fix typographical errors and correctly represent the gender of some individuals. You can view the full archive here.