Angry Rant- Your Plans are NOT the Most Important

            The world does not revolve around you and your plans. Just because you planned something doesn’t mean that it’s going to work for everyone, so you better be quick to accept that. Last Tuesday I was suppose to go on a field trip. Come Monday the forecast wasn’t looking good so the trip had to be postponed. A few days later we found out it was rescheduled for this Wednesday. The original trip went only during the school day, so we didn’t have to worry about it interfering with our outside lives. The first problem with the rescheduled trip is that it doesn’t. The rescheduled trip goes from 1-7 pm.

            Well 99% of the people going on the trip have to be back for an event at school that starts at 7. This event was scheduled way before the first field trip was rescheduled. But the teacher of the first field trip things that her event is the most important thing ever and that we can just be late to the other event. Umm, hello, she scheduled her event on top of the other one! You can’t schedule something on top of a pre-planned event then tell us to just be late to something we’ve already committed to. That’s just rude!

            On top of that she’s now angry at as for “setting a bad example” for other schools because we want to leave the field trip early to get back to school in time. Don’t you think arriving late to the event at school is rude? Don’t you think that blaming us for making plans is rude? We paid to be a part of the event at school; therefore we have no reason to be forced into staying on an optional field trip instead.

            She needs to suck it up and accept the fact that life isn’t perfect, she didn’t plan perfectly, and we are mature enough to choose which event we would prefer to attend. She’s lucky we’re trying to make both work to start with instead of backing out of the field trip completely.

♥ Diary of a Teen