Sneaking Things to School

On Wednesday, I received this text from Mrs. Clark:

"After morning program, Brianna had a hard time settling down to work.  After several warnings, I sent her out to the hall.  She spent about 5 minutes in the hall and came back in with a much better attitude.  She lost 5 minutes of recess and the rest of the day she did awesome.  I still felt like I should let you know.  I did not send her home with a note"
  
Brianna knew that a note did not come home, so I asked her after school, "So, how was your day?  Did you get in trouble at all."  Her happy response, "No".  I then go on to explain to her the text I received and that she needs to sit in her room until dinner and that she cannot go to Awanas because our rule is that if you get in trouble at school, you get in trouble at home.  And if it is on an Awanans night, then you miss Awanas.  She has missed Awanas the past 3-4 weeks because she always seems to get in trouble on Wednesdays.

So on Friday, I found out from Cooper that Brianna had her church boots at school.  She knows I do not want her to wear her nice church boots to school because the playground gets them nasty and then they do not look nice for church.  So, she snuck them in her backpack while wearing a different pair to school.  She of course had to sit in her room until dinner for that.  I spoke with her about it and told her she needed to bring them home on Monday.

Monday rolls around and Jeff sees her barefoot in the gym at recess.  Then he sees her putting on her boots barefoot after recess.  She doesn't bring them home from school on Monday either.  As I am unpacking her backpack, I notice that she has snuck a pair of flip flops into her backpack as well, which kids are not even allowed to wear flip flops to school and not to mention it was raining and cold.  I question her with "Brianna, why is there a pair of flip flops in your backpack."   Here is her response,  "I accidentally grabbed them when I was grabbing my tennis shoes".  So I say, "Accidentally?  So you wore flip flops to school instead of tennis shoes?"  She says, "No".  Then I say, "Well, did you accidentally put your flip flops in your backpack too?"  At this point she knew she was caught lying, which she does multiple times each day.  I asked her, "Did you even wear the flip flops at school"   She says, "No".  So basically the only reason she put them in her backpack was to disobey me and to make me angry for sneaking them to school when she knows she is not supposed to.  I simply cannot understand this.  I have never seen a child WANT to get in trouble so badly.  It is as if she thrives off of being in trouble all the time.

I am so exhausted by her and her lying.  I made her have eggs for dinner, which I haven't done in a long time because most times it's not worth the battle, but I am just SO upset with her and there aren't any consequences that seem to make any difference whatsoever in her behavior. 

I am calling the counselor today........