Informing the schools

I called my Daughters school this morning and spoke to the school head. I told her I wanted to meet and explain some personal things that may or may not impact on my daughters. She suggested she had time to meet over lunch time and so I went to meet her at 12.45.
I explained what has been going on and that I wanted her to be armed with this information in case when I go full time (likely September / Early October) my daughters have any issue with other children.
We had a good chat and she was very professional. She said she would watch out for any issues. She did say that if any problem was to happen she felt it was more likely to come from the parents in the school yard bringing kids into it rather than the children themselves.
She is probably right to. Children are generally fine until some bigoted parents start changing their minds.
But that said I don’t really interact with many parents there and because of work don’t get the chance to go to the school too often. The ones I do know are nice people and I can’t see a major problem from them. I also have no intention of making this a big issue so it may hopefully not become one.
But at least if it does become a problem the school will be prepared.
I also called my sons school head at the secondary school. He is a busy man as it is a large school. He even has a PA!
His PA said she would like to help and direct the call to someone else who could help. I explained that was not an option and that I wanted to speak to him as it was personal.
He called me this evening and asked if we could discuss it over the phone. So that's what we did.
Again he was professional and appreciated my honesty, and being given notice. I have sent him quite a few leaflets that GIRES have written for schools and a link to their web site. He gave me his personal email address and he has my mobile number. He asked if in the new school Year (September) I would give permission for my son’s year head and class teacher to be made aware (Nobody else) and assured me that it would remain confidential.
I agreed as they will be in good positions to discreetly make sure everything’s ok.
I will let them both know as and when an exact date is agreed but if the truth be known I am spending more and more time as me even around where we live so people may gossip well in advance of me going full time.
I am naturally a confident person and good with people. I don’t often let myself get nervous and do try to control my emotions when in challenging situations. But that said although I was calm on the outside doing this I do have a lot of emotions running underneath. I guess it’s the fight or flight response. (Wouldn’t it be lovely to just run away from all this sometimes and start afresh somewhere else!)
Normally at the end of the day when I think back I can feel the emotions and tension inside from whatever has been going on that day. And with transition these emotions are strong.
I know I need to remain strong over the next few months and I also know I can do this. But I really wish I didn’t have to.
A song I am in love with at the moment is Eminem – Not Afraid. There is some swearing in it but I do love it. I quite like the video as well. When I watch it I kind of get a buzz and a lift.
I hope you like it