So a number of you have expressed prior love for Evil Chipmunk. I admit, she's fun, snarky, and absolutely great to hang out with. But right now, she has a very very bad idea and will not listen to me, so I turn it over to you.
Background:
When I was in 5th grade, I had a bully for a teacher. A literal bully. She selected me out of her entire class to pick on. She'd never screw over my grades (my folks would have been all over that in a heartbeat and she knew it), but she found other ways.
Examples include her pointing out to the entire class that I'd finally gotten new athletic shoes (implying my family was too cheap/poor to buy new ones- my prior shoes were dirty, and worn down, but I did a lot of outdoor activities and my shoe size shot from a women's 6.5 to a 9 that year, so wear out the shoes!), snide/snarky comments about how I was left handed and struggled with penmanship and cutting out stuff, and culminating in calling me a liar in front of the class regarding reading a book for a report, claiming I couldn't possibly have read it that fast, and demanding the other students raise their hands if they thought I'd actually read the book.
I said nothing to my parents about this, they only found out a month before school let out when some parents came up to my mom during the school play to comment on how they'd heard of this from their kids and couldn't believe it. My mother had a brief chat with the teacher at the end of the year, telling her if I'd said something sooner, this would have been brought up with the principal and the school board. The teacher apparently cried. Fast forward 7 years, and I'm mentoring a girl in Big Brothers/Big Sisters. My Little Sister had the same teacher, who was picking on her due to her difficulties in reading comp and mathematics. After the second time my Little came to her tutoring session in tears, I went to see the teacher at the end of the school day (wearing a letterman jacket absolutely LOADED with patches, medals, etc, indicating my academic and athletic success). She knew exactly who I was, judging from her pale face and cold tone. I asked if she had suggestions on how to help my Little improve her confidence. She said nothing, but my Little stopped getting picked on.
End Background.
This teacher has now popped up on my "people you might know" on Facebook. I think it's because I still have some acquaintances on FB in the same area. Evil Chipmunk wants to send her a message, politely worded, saying who I am, that I remember her, and despite looking back 17 years to her atrocious treatment of me, I forgive her, have become a great person, etc. I'm telling Evil that this is a bad idea, because if she's the way she was back then, she'll claim I'm harassing her, go crazy, etc, drama that I don't need to get involved in.
What do you think?