The Weakling Fooled us, GD it! I should resign
He/she/they foooled ALL OF US AT THE SCHOOL Knowing that’s their mfkn modus operandi! I KNOW Patrick I know how he set his parents up, accusing them of abuse calling the police on them. They had to install cameras to prove he was lying. He openly admits he does it to get something he wants If people say no, he’ll threaten with reporting them And regularly reports tons of incidents that he makes up
I still fell for it. I said, Am I a racist piece of shit!? I asked all the adults involved, they said no, Patrick fooled ALL of us. Their therapist said the reason is the accusation resembled behaviors the accused has shown before: of being sexually inappropriate with classmates, and attempting to engage on social media in fucked up ways That classmates do not like, and report to their parents, who finally Have to decide if they want to sacrifice their entire family and life to this psychotic child that’s using terrorism to control them Or send the child to experts, people who are prepared to physically intervene to preserve safety, and who show up to work with kids like them. In between, some evaluations, but overall, it’s because both home and school have said: this child is way to dangerous for us to deal with. And also they’re ruining everything for everyone else. So they are sent away, to us, to me, and yesterday I was bragging.
I said this is why we make the big bucks (sarcasm/exaggeration, but true relative to average “basic” teacher salaries. SPED teachers get a little more.
But should I even collect my paycheck, given I believed a child-con-artist accusing a roommate of sexual comments, gestures, and also kicking, attacking him. Pat said he was terrified, I freakin’ GAVE HIM A HUG. I HELPED GET HIM INTO ANOTHER UNIT AND CLASSROOM.
Yo, do you remember that movie with a priest, and a lawyer- Richard Gere- the accused is Edward Norton. Edward was abused by a priest, the priest raped him when he was young. So later he returns and cut the priest up, throws his blood everywhere, makes it nasty. Then when he gets arrested, Richard Gere defends him on an insanity plea But at the VERY END, after everyone’s convinced Norton doesn’t remember killing the priest (he fakes an alternative personality, or performs it consistently enough in the court for the jury to get a not guilty verdict. But of course at the very end he reveals to his lawyer who’s feeling great about his success as a genius lawyer, that he was lying the whole time, and happy with killing the priest. He pretends the fake accent that he used in court, and laughs at Richard Gere.
So that’s what Patrick did to us. Why? Maybe because he is attracted to Leontae. They’re both probably gay. Pat is a girl, wears a rainbow unicorn onsie every day, and female mannerisms. Leontae is tall, dark black, with dignified mannerisms and obvious, constant emotional distress, broken up by happy moments walking high on toes striding around, looking off into imaginary lang, and grinning (Autism love to do their thang).
Patrick is probably scared of Leontae. But we watched all the video footage of them together on the unit and everywhere in the building and there was no evidence of Pat’s accusations. on video it actually looked like Pat is following Leontae around.
So there I was— helping shuttle Patty away from Leontae who wanted to really hit or hurt Pat for telling people he was saying sexually inappropriate things, and asking things about sex, I protected Pat, who had made the whole thing up.
So this morning Leontae was out there, waiting for Patty near his (new) classroom door. My point was, fine, let him get him. You can’t lie about people the way Patrick does. It is actual terrorism. All to get something you want. And he got it. He got a roommate, unit, and classroom change. And I helped him do it :(
I apologized to Leontae today. My teammate said don’t apologize to kids because they’ll use it against you, but I said, no I think we need to model how to make an appropriate healthy apology, like taking responsbility without making excuses, renewing the argument, or asking the injured party to make the injuring party feel better about hurting them
Taking responsibility is always good. Kids learn the lesson or they don’t.
When we saw Patty in the cafeteria during change of 1st-2nd lunch I said to them, I know you lied to us, now. And I said, You wouldn’t have to be afraid of Leontae right now (he was trying to hide behind staff when we came in- and we were protecting him!), if you HAD NOT LIED ABOUT HIM.
Like Leontae said, he lied on my name. facts. so I said, if Leontae goes for him again, let Patrick catch a few licks. That will stick better, as a lesson, than us rescuing him.
Leontae is a gentle, poetic person. And he’s gay. He doesn’t want to beat Patrick up. He wants to hug. I’m so mad I kicked him away from us yesterday, “rescuing” Patrick. In retrospect, the whole thing is trifling af. What a long week! Still grateful for it.