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August 9, 2004
Can You Say STUPID?
This morning marked the first day of school here in Clark County. Like usual, it was a nightmare at Ashley’s school. Here’s why: instead of having an open house before school begins, they moronically wait until two weeks after school has started. This way, the children have no clue where their classroom is and they’ve never met their teacher on the first day. It wouldn’t be such a bad situation except for the fact that the administrators let the parents pile up in the hall until the clock strikes 7:30. At this time there is a stampede to the classrooms. It’s not a situation that I would leave my daughter in alone to fend for herself.
One year in order to make things better (yeah right) we took Ashley to the school during the summer, found out who her teacher was, introduced her, and showed her the way to her classroom. All of these preventive measures failed when on the first day of school we found out that her teacher had been changed.
Back to today: The children have to be at school between 7:30 and 7:40. I was told upon entering the building that we would be able to take our children to their classrooms at 7:30. I accepted this fact although I think it is totally asinine to make people wait and pile up in the hallway. Why can’t the teachers be there early on the first day so that we can go ahead to the classroom? Anyway, the clock struck 7:30 and the principal started saying that only kindergarten students could go – that we were going to have to go in order. I said, “It’s 7:30.” She says to me, “Well, we’re letting the kindergarten go first and we’re doing the best that we can.” She wasn’t nice at all! I explained to her that I had a high school child waiting in the car and that he had to be at school at 8:00. Five minutes later, we were all allowed to enter the wing to the classrooms. Ashley’s room was at the end of the hall (you figured that, huh!). I very quickly met her teacher and walked briskly out to the car to find Andrew in a panic. He knew that we would have to wait in a long line of traffic at the high school and he was right. I got him there with about two minutes to spare. I am relieved to be at home now. I can only hope that tomorrow will go much smoother. Keep those fingers crossed ;)
Posted by tami at August 9, 2004 8:39 AM
Comments
What an awful, stressful way to start the school year. Why don't you get some like-minded parents together and write a letter to the individual school board members (so no one person will file 13 it) and cc your local paper?
By the way, your comments don't remember me. :(
Posted by: gw at August 10, 2004 12:13 AM
That's what we plan to do at the end of the year. If we do it now, they will have forgotten by next year.
Posted by: Tami at August 10, 2004 7:14 AM
Ahhh, good thinking.
Posted by: gw at August 11, 2004 2:05 AM