I AM STILL MAD!!!!

*This picture is several days after the fall. She looked much worse before.

Ten days ago my little first grader Hannah fell while running on the school track. She skidded down an asphalt track on her face, knocking out her front tooth (baby tooth) and messing up her nose pretty good. It was not my week to carpool and I was not home when she got home. Zach called me and told me that Hannah was hurt and crying. I rushed home and there she was with a swollen mouth, nose, and was all scraped up and bloody with her front tooth gone. I was immediately incensed. Why wasn't I called? I checked my cell phone, home phone caller id and lastly my e-mail. Sure enough, there was an e-mail which in summary said that Hannah fell during recess while running the required laps and scraped her nose and "her loose tooth fell out" The teacher further stated that she was crying the rest of the day but felt that she was "more scared than anything." What??? What??? No call home. No office visit? These things are sticky because it is only hte beginning of the year and I need to maintain somewhat of a relationship with this teacher....my e-mail "gently" explained the real extent of her injuries (i.e. tooth was not loose, face swollen, etc.) and told her that I felt like the injury meritied a phone call to home because it was traumatic, a facial injury, tooth lost, first grader..... I then told her that something needed to be done about that track because Seth got hurt during the first week of school in the same place on the track. I told her that I was sending a copy of the e-mail to the principal "so that he could address the issue of the track". (sly mama that I am). I then asked the principal in the e-mail if he felt like it was handled right, etc. he immediatley replied and asked that Hannah and I be in his office first thing in the morning. He agreed that it was not handled properly and wanted to use it as a training example. When I got back to the classroom the teacher rushed up to me and said "I didn't know Hannah wanted to call home". " I would have let her call home but she didn't tell me." (interpretation - "i did nothing wrong here"). When I got home there was another e-mail which really made me mad: And I quote: We were on our way to art. I would have let her call, but I did not know. Maybe she was too upset to let us know that she wanted to call home. I am so sorry! I hope she is doing better today. Good Hell?? is this woman dense?