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Phone numbers, parents, and frames
By Jade

First of all, if you live in a small community your phone number is probably published in the phone book. I never "give out" my home number, but parents call me anyway (which I usually don't mind) and most of them know where
I live, too.
Second, in defense of the parent it may be that her child just at that moment chose to show her your note, and she may have told her mother that she needed the money immediately. Maybe their money is tighter than you realize. It wasn't the best thought-out plan to call you then, but her anger and frustration got the better of her. You also don't know what story she

was told--kids will rearrange the truth to protect themselves. And, how was she supposed to know that 8:30 is too late for you and that she was going to wake up your child?? That is not a late hour for me to be receiving calls.

Third, accidents happen. I've had children accidentally knock things off my desk or the counters and they have broken. Sometimes they are my personal things, but I figure that if I chose to have them in school that is the chance I take. However, if a child deliberately breaks something, that is another matter entirely. Then I CALL the parent (not send a note) to discuss the problem.