SCHBR'smom
<font color=brown>My mind is as clear and focused
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I agree with your thought that you should have immediately taken the 'mean-aide' issue up with the authorities (not the principal, however, for they lack 'real' power; I mean with the board of trustees and a lawyer I shall be referring you too soon) and get the mean-aide fired. After all, what is the lost of employment to a mean-aide when compared to a child's smile?
As for the boy: if a child is old enough to request to drive, then they are mature enough to drive. It reminds me of another thread we once had where a person asked if they should get their two-year-old daughter pierced ears (or, rather, piece the ears the girl already had; not purchased ready-made pierced ears). The poster thought the daughter was too young, but said the daughter had requested them one day while they were walking through a mall.
Well! Of course the poster was immediately taken to task for not fullfilling the little girls' wish immediately. I was astounded at how many posters had children as young as five months old making such piercing demands, and they all acceded; one poster whom had the procedure done on her two-year old said that "If my child is old enough to ask for her ears, tongue or naval to be pierced, then she is old enough to have it done".
This, of course, I have never thought of. I was instantly struck by the unassailable logic.
I was a little confused when that same poster, in another thread, stated that an older daughter, aged 13, was 'not mature enough' to go out on a date with a 14 year old boy, but I decided that the posters' infant was simply more mature than the 13 year old.
I confess, I did not actually read your post. However, I hope that my responses have, by happy accident, addressed your concerns.
Granting their every wish because they mature enough to ask for it is why my children are covered in tattoos. Except their feet. That would just be gross.