I am going to post something my brother has maintained for years. While he can seem detatched from social conventions most of the time, sometimes he has scary insight. He has a theory he calls the "worry box." To explain: Everybody has an internal worry box, no two peoples box is the same size nor are the items placed within the box. While some people seem to have a vast amount of things they can stress about (big box) others can only handle a very small amout of stress at a time (small box). Everybody keeps their "worry box" full at all times, either about gas prices, new tires, non-matching socks, ugly drivers license photo, etc..., but at times something bigger comes along like a sick child, friend having problems which displaces the smaller problems and they tend to overflow. Someone may think mis-matched socks are a big deal, I wouldn't even put it in my box (ever). I may think needing new tires are a worry, but you wouldn't worry about my tires.
Using this train of thought, which I hate to admit makes sense by the way, I can see the teachers minor worries overflowing into her classroom with the stress of her friends problem taking up the most room. Taking her stressors into consideration, I think she handled the talk well and responded above reproach. Do I think she ever would REALLY place a child on a bus knowing the parents were waiting in the lobby, NO, she just made a real bad choice about what to nit-pick and was called to the mat for it.
