saturday i got an email from livka, saying, "I'd like to meet with you after school, at 3:30, this Monday. You're not in any trouble, don't worry. I'm asking you - in all seriousness - to keep this meeting private, however. Please don't discuss having the meeting or anything said in the meeting with other students or in front of other students."

sketchy, eh? well apparently this email was addressed to 5 out of 6 of the students in my class. i did not notice that morgan did not get this sketchy email. so this morning i talked briefly about it with another classmate, then went to physics, where i mentioned the weird email to morgan, not knowing she hadn't recieved it. smart one. so she started to worry about why she hadn't gotten told about this meeting, etc. etc. not cool. (i was freaking out all day by the way, partially because of all this. nervous sweating, hot & cold, etc. i'm a weirdo)

class was very awkward, because we all knew something was up and that morgan was not supposed to know about it yet did.

so 3:30 rolls around, and there are 3 of us meeting (the other two had conflicts and met with her earlier). we find out that livka had decided to have this meeting because last week, when reviewing for a quiz, she felt like we had ganged up on morgan (who freaks out about every little quiz like it's going to kill her) and were teasing her too much or something, and "that's not the kind of atmosphere i would like in our class." WELL SHE DIDN'T EVEN ASK MORGAN ABOUT HOW SHE FELT!!

i understand that it's her right to establish the kind of "classroom atmosphere" she wants. and i know she's trying to do the right thing and be all PC and touchy-feely (she just got of college, this is her first real teaching job). but honestly, who in their right mind would think it's a good idea to call a meeting to basically talk about another student? i was kind of shell-shocked and tried to bring it up to her, but wasn't really coherent about it.

i talked to morgan about it, and she said that livka never asked her if she felt like she was being ganged up on or whatever.

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so i think this is bullshit. total bullshit. and i don't think anyone in my class is going to bring it up further, and i think it needs to be discussed and laid to rest so there isn't this weirdness for the rest of the year. so tommorrow i need to tell livka what she should have done and why what she did was wrong. and i think i should ask her to apologize to morgan and explain herself. i don't want to be too mean to her because one of the other girls in the "meeting" told me afterwards livka looked like she was going to cry when i was asking her if she didn't think it was weird that she had asked us to meet to talk about morgan. i know livka tried to do the right thing, but...whatever.