I Don't Exist

Just in case you were wondering, and if you didn't know.....I don't exist! A few months ago I got an email, on my school email account, from a parent (that was NOT a parent of one of my students). I figured this out after many emails from said parent insisting that her daughter is in my 5th period.....umm....lady, I teach elementary school....we don't have periods. It seriously took me 4 or 5 emails to convince her that No, I don't have your child in my class, and No, I don't teach middle school.

Again, a few weeks ago I get another email from a parent (again, NOT a parent of one of my students). However, this father was able to understand a lot quicker that I wasn't the teacher of his son. Later I found out, supposedly, there's a teacher at a middle school close to me with my exact same name. How randomly random is that? And said teacher has apparently given out her (MY) email address as her own. I know this because first (clueless) mother told me I had put the email in my disclosure statement at the first of the year.

Just today I went to our school library to check out some books and videos for my unit, and the librarian could not find me on her system. Yup, you heard me right, I don't exist. She found the Melanie Jensen at the middle school......but no ME! I have been erased from the system I guess. Does this mean I don't have to come to work anymore?