The Housewife Assassin's Deadly Dossier by Josie Brown

Author:Josie Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Signal Press

[From the student record archives of the Pasadena Country Day School, Mrs. Lawson’s Second Grade Class Parent Correspondence Copy file:]

Dear Mrs. Shives,

A note of thanks for the basket of tasty blueberry muffins, delivered to me this morning by our sweet little student, Donna. I shared them with the other teachers and Principal Conklin, all of whom were very appreciative!

The note in the basket mentioned your apprehension that Donna isn’t endearing herself to the other second grade students, especially the other girls.

Sadly, there may be some credence to your concerns.

If you remember, the decision to allow Donna to skip a grade was one taken with great caution on both your part and that of the school’s. Her scores in both the Stanford-Benet and Wechsler Intelligence Scale tests were so impressive that holding her back would have been a grave discourtesy to her.

And while she lacks the social maturity that comes when a child’s beginning grade in school is the first as opposed to the second grade, Donna is certainly an “old soul.” Personally, I dislike this overused term. But in this case, I feel it is apropos.

Donna is indeed wise beyond her years.

She may not be as old as the others in the class, but she certainly takes on the role of “big sister” with some of the meeker children in the class. Unfortunately, her naturally sweet demeanor and strident sense of right and wrong have put her at odds with some of the more dominant children in the class.

Cases in point: One of our volunteer playground mommies was privy to an interaction between your daughter and some of the other second-grade girls, who don’t have her inclusive sensibilities. During one of the girls’ less thoughtful acts towards a shy little boy, this mommy likened Donna’s somewhat colorful chastisement of the clique to that of a “sailor on a drunken binge.”

In a second incident later that week, after this particular second-grade girls’ clique had cordoned off a section of the playground as their private domain, one of our student teachers watched as Donna coerced them into the janitorial shed and threatened to leave them in there to starve unless they allowed some of the other girls to play with them.

Rest assured, the girls were released from captivity by the end of the play period.

The complexity of the trap she set was certainly impressive (according to the report she dressed it up as a “Disney castle”), and would make any Cubbette scoutmaster proud. (I understand you head up the neighborhood troop for that age group). And frankly, I was more concerned when I heard the girls were drawing straws to determine which of them was to be eaten first, should it come to that.

Still, in light of these incidents, I think it’s fair to say that Donna’s skills at conflict resolution are certainly in need of fine-tuning.

That being said, I hope you can work with me in encouraging her to curtail her candid remarks and more strident actions during times of confrontation.

Yours truly,

Mrs.

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