Too much darkness

Apart from 2022, the last four years have been onerous. First Covid-19, which broke out properly in Sweden at the beginning of 2020, then rampant inflation, which was followed by the ongoing recession. Added to this is the invasion of a country in our immediate vicinity of its neighbor and Hamas's attack on Israel.

On a personal level, my best friend has cancer, declining sales in our business, one of the offspring's teachers who dislikes him on a personal level, and a big fight between my siblings that I have nothing to do with but still gets dragged into. All of this requires a deeper commitment that individually would have been manageable but taken together almost feels overwhelming. Although I hate confrontation, I had to contact Junior's teacher today.

The background to this problem is that the offspring and a friend of his misbehaved during the very first lesson with this teacher in grade 10. Her first impression of our son was not good and it is completely self-inflicted, I do not excuse him. For the entire first semester I defended the teacher when he complained that she never helped him and said he had no one to blame but himself.

But her way of treating Junior throughout the school year is completely unprofessional. Not once during the entire school year has she "had time" to help our son when he asked questions or sought her help. Our son's friend was treated the exact same way until his parents confronted her and she instead became very accommodating towards to both them and their son.

I have been hoping this would resolve itself but realized last week when she was downright rude to my son that this will not be the outcome.