Was I rude or just honest?

I had a consultation today with my daughter’s future principal and we had a talk about the school and what’s expected from the parents. It’s a private school so we’re already paying a lot for her to go there. I knew they want parents to be involved and help with a mandatory 2 events a year to help (more if possible). The second he saw that I work from home (just as my employers address was the same as mine-the document stated I’m an engineer) he was like O you’re a SAHM that’s great we need a lot of help…I did say I would love to help but for the first year I’ll have to do just the minimum 2 events as currently I’m pregnant and I’m due right when the school year starts and I actually run two businesses from home working from 7am till 10pm to give a good life to my kids and don’t have days off but once this year is over and we’re not in the baby stage I’ll do my best to help as much as I can. Was this rude of me or just being honest? My husband said it was mildly rude but acceptable. I mean I’m not truly a SAHM..I raise my kid from home while I work two jobs and I’m pregnant….even working parents have more free time than me. He didn’t even look at my husband to ask him if he can help which already told him he’s off on Wednesdays so this was little weirdly targeted at me.
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I personally think it was rude of the principal to assume that just because you’re a sahm that you have all the time in the world. I don’t think you said anything wrong.

The principal made an assumption and you just corrected him. Now I can’t say if it was done rudely because I don’t know what tone was used. Sometimes other people think something sounds rude when the person speaking doesn’t mean for it to come across rude based on how it was said.

Not rude.

@Christina Yeah I used very respectful tone looking for him to understand my situation. I’m Easter European so we’re famous with being a little too direct and honest and we hate sugar coating or saying things like “Not a problem I’ll help” so that they hear what they want to hear and then be a no show. It’s just hard for me to read how people in US take someone being direct.

Not rude. Rude of him to assume - he should have asked if you had extra free time to help. People don’t learn to behave appropriately if no one corrects them.

Not rude at all

Nope, not rude! You just clarified and corrected his assumption and gave details 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not rude at all. Working from home doesn't equal sahm. I think I would have been a little more rude 😂

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