Don't Let Your "Friends" Pick your classes!!!

I spent today in acronym "h***". My "friend" was taking a class and thought I should too. She found this one for me about Improving Report Writing. Thought it would help me teach my students to write better. Nooooooooooooooooooo.......It was about writing better Special Ed reports to get students evaluated or after they have been evaluated. How to write better ARD (acronym) meeting reports!!!!
It only took about 30 minutes into the class for me to realize I did not know ANYTHING they were talking about. To make matters worse - We had a test on what we knew!!!! Nothing - Zero for me!!!
Group work was humiliating!!! My table would look at me and ask - what tests does your school use (TAKS was NOT an answer choice). So since we were in to acronyms I said WTF don't you use that one? "What evaluations do you use?" CFHS - isn't that what you use??? OMG
Got out for lunch 15 minutes late, because the instructor had 5 more minutes of information to give us. Must be some form of acronym math. (I don't do math - But my friend is, I'm signing her up for a MATH class - more on that later)
Get back from lunch and the instructor tells us "We aren't going to take an official break so we can get our of here by 4" WTF (oh wait, that's a test). She starts flying through material - did you know there were 17 forms of G evaluation and apparently I do because I have been using them for year. "Right?" I became the queen of bobble head yes movement!!!
Now just when I thought things couldn't get worse, we start writing the reports for ARD meetings - OMG times 2!!! So I text my frenemy to tell me when she is on a break so I can take one too, and she texts me at 2:43 to tell me she is out. I think break - WRONG!!! Out for good!!!! I'm stuck till 4 and she is out at 2:43!!!!
As soon as I post this blog I am finding a Math class to sign my friend up for. You see she HATES math, and I think turn about is fair play. Wooo Calcus looks good to me!!!

Compassion????

Why is it not all children/students aren't treated equally? I give my students every opportunity to complete work and to be successful. Why can't that same attention be given to my own children. Is it too much to ask to have assignments explained in writing? What 13 year old can remember all the details for a major project after 6 other class periods? Mine can't!!! He's then told he loses points because his mom is a teacher, and he should have done a better job. Is this teacher saying I should have done the assignment??? I am trying to teach my son to be responsible for himself, and he is continually being told "Your mom is a teacher so... you should do better, you should be better, etc." Just because he is the son of a teacher doesn't make him some type of "model" student and it shouldn't! I don't ask my students what their parents do and then expect them to perform to that job level in my classroom. And how do you stop this prejudice with out black balling your child with that teacher? I would love some suggetions!!!