When I signed Jack up for kindergarten, I informed the school that his nursery school had indicated that he was not developing socially as they had hoped, and that he required a firm hand and an experienced, older teacher, as he was able to run circles around the younger teachers in preschool.
So the school, in its infinite wisdom, put Jack in a classroom with a 24 year old, pretty little teacher. Smooth move...just asking for it. And boy did he give it to them!
From the beginning, Jack was difficult. He hid under his desk. He ripped papers off the walls. He flipped the lights off and on. He was, in general, very disruptive. He refused to listen and did not respond to discipline. He and the Vice Principal became good friends because they spent so much time together that year.
One week his nanny Norris went on vacation and asked a very lovely woman to take care of the boys in her absence. Jack did not react well to the Norris' absence. His behavior at school became far more pronounced, and I was getting daily calls from the teacher and principal at my office. (So much for that whole "trying to make a living" thing!)
One day he threw such a fit that his substitute sitter stayed at school with him, taking him out into the hallway. She held him in her lap as he cried. His teacher came out and knelt down to Jack's level and asked him what was wrong. When he refused to answer, she placed her face very close to his face and looking him in the eyes and asked again.
She is the first to admit that getting into Jack's personal space was probably not the best idea she had ever had. Later she said that she did not know what she was thinking, as he never liked to have people that near him.
So you are probably wondering what he next, huh? Well, what is it that Ralph always said to Alice on the Honeymooners? "One of these days, Alice, to the moon!" Yes, he punched his very sweet and pretty teacher right in the face!
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