W was absent from school two Fridays ago. As usual, when he went back to school, there were a lot of homeworks to catch up on. When children at lower primary school were absent from school, not only they will get confused by the amount of homework they get. Sometimes, they have missing books which were taken by their friends or kept by their teachers. The missing books remain missing and the child was blamed for not doing his homework on his MIA book.
So, one week after the absenteeism from school, I received a note from teacher, stating that my poor boy did not do his homework. To my surprise, the choice of words were, "Recently, always did not do homework and did not pass up the book." Considering W has been attending tuition classes, where the teacher also helps with his homework, I did not expect to receive this type of message from the school teacher.
On one end, I don't really believe my son will not complete his homework as he is a responsible boy. On the other end, I was a bit disappointed if the message was true. Hiding my disappointment at my son, I tried to probe him while pretending to take bath for him. All truth exploded out when he was probed gently, without any hint of accusation. Apparently, it was a case of misunderstanding and miscommunication. I promised to meet his teacher on Monday to explain the scenario. On top of that, I wrote a note to inform the teacher of the real story.
Today, when I met the teacher and told her the whole story, she had the cheek to tell me that those were W's absent homework and not his regular homework. And she will try to look for his missing book so that he can proceed to complete his homework. And, being pregnant, I was too slow to react to her statement until I reached home. Hmm, should have told her that she was creating a tsunami by writing "ALWAYS did not do homework." How do you define ALWAYS?
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