Is it normal to have no acknowledgement of emails in Public Schools

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Once again thank you for the nasty comments. Our kids had been in private but due to my wife losing her job we had decided to move them to public. The private school they were in granted us financial assistance so we chose to move them back and sent an email to the public school principal/administrator explaining them the situation, thanking them for helping with enrolling our kids and wishing them the best for the coming school year. All we expected (which I realize now we should not) was a simple thanks for letting us know. Both our kids supplies were in their individual desk - they are in higher grades . To the PP who commented if we were expecting them to beg us to come back, your nastiness shines through. Like I have said earlier a couple of times, it has been a learning experience - the one at the school and likewise now the one with the nasty kind of comments that have been posted here

This is not an explanation about why you decided to bail on public school on day 1.

I hope your children continue to have a fabulous time in private school.

Actually it is an explanation why you decided to bail on public school on day 1. It's very difficult to leave private school. Good luck!

Yeah especially when you have to deal with uncouth public school ruffians! WHO DONT ANSWER EMAILS IN A TIMELY MANNER!!

I work for the government, but not FCPS, and we're expected to respond within 1 business day.

FCPS is in the wrong here, and they absolutely should send an email to verify that the child has been withdrawn. If educators want to be treated like professionals, they need to act like professionals.

GMAB. Unless returning emails in 24 hours is FCPS policy, this is a moot point. You can't arbitrarily determine what is considered professional. There are no standards set into law.

DP. I agree that 24 hours is pretty standard. However, OP doesn't seem to have given either the principal or the teacher that amount of time to respond, although it seems that the principal did receive and act on the email, just did not send an acknowledgement email in response.

I've received fast/useful responses, slow/not useful responses, and no responses at all. This is from FCPS, from businesses, from law firms, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, some PPs want to really pile it on OP. I suspect it is because OP's children attend private school, and the sour PP's think OP is getting something they are not. What a bunch of petulant children. Guess what PPs? OP will be happier than you long after this is over. You know why? Because y'all are haters. Haters don't get very far because they are too busy getting in their own way.

Eh the entire scenario presented in the OP was ridiculous and snowflakey. I have zero desire to send my children to private school. I dont think private school is reflective of the society we live in and do not believe private school education is offering anything that my children cannot get in their highly rated public school.

I doubt OP will be all that happy since he gets fired up over an email not being returned within a few minutes. As I said the entire thing is ridiculous.

OPs sentiment is geared toward one small item, while the dramatic PPs are geared toward "snowflaky" behavior, and other derogatory sentiments. It is not brain surgery to see that the negative PPs are not concentrating on the issue, but what they think of OP, having not known OP in the least. It really makes no sense; but not a surprise on this board, given this area. Maybe OPs request is silly, but she posted to gauge whether or not it is, and what her expectations should be. Instead, she saw the true colors of the haves versus the have nots. One can only imagine how out of proportion some of the PPs brains really are, IRL.

Well she wanted to gauge whether it was silly and got her answer.

This thread has nothing to do with the haves and the have nots.

PPs say otherwise.

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4 boxes for kindergarten is standard. That is what was required when DC was in Kindergarten. You could probably go to any FCPS website and download their supply list since you're so interested.

I guess it varies quite a bit.

https://bullrunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Center School)

https://virginiarunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Base School)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, some PPs want to really pile it on OP. I suspect it is because OP's children attend private school, and the sour PP's think OP is getting something they are not. What a bunch of petulant children. Guess what PPs? OP will be happier than you long after this is over. You know why? Because y'all are haters. Haters don't get very far because they are too busy getting in their own way.

No, it's b/c OP's expectations were not reasonable. He wanted a response in quick order on the busiest day(s) of the school year, for something that didn't need a response at all.... a response would simply have been a polite response. Give the principal and teachers a break! It was only 1-2 days. They will get to it.

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This thread would be totally different if OP was moving from an AAP center to a base school. As soon as OP said private school, people immediately judge.

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4 boxes for kindergarten is standard. That is what was required when DC was in Kindergarten. You could probably go to any FCPS website and download their supply list since you're so interested.

I guess it varies quite a bit.

https://bullrunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Center School)

https://virginiarunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Base School)

And now look at this one: http://www.campussurvivalkits.com/willowsprings/ws-kindergarten

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Anonymous wrote:This thread would be totally different if OP was moving from an AAP center to a base school. As soon as OP said private school, people immediately judge.

+1

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4 boxes for kindergarten is standard. That is what was required when DC was in Kindergarten. You could probably go to any FCPS website and download their supply list since you're so interested.

I guess it varies quite a bit.

https://bullrunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Center School)

https://virginiarunes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists/kindergarten-supply-list (Base School)

And now look at this one: http://www.campussurvivalkits.com/willowsprings/ws-kindergarten

Ours seems worse
https://navyes.fcps.edu/academics/school-supply-lists

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread would be totally different if OP was moving from an AAP center to a base school. As soon as OP said private school, people immediately judge.

actually the first thought I judged was that someone concluded on Day 1 of school that it wasn't as good as their private school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread would be totally different if OP was moving from an AAP center to a base school. As soon as OP said private school, people immediately judge.

actually the first thought I judged was that someone concluded on Day 1 of school that it wasn't as good as their private school

Depends on how you want to look at it. OP moved back the kids to the school they had been in after their aid got approved. What would you have done?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread would be totally different if OP was moving from an AAP center to a base school. As soon as OP said private school, people immediately judge.

actually the first thought I judged was that someone concluded on Day 1 of school that it wasn't as good as their private school

Depends on how you want to look at it. OP moved back the kids to the school they had been in after their aid got approved. What would you have done?

Yes, that is what OP did. However, what OP posted was that public schools in general and FCPS in particular are terrible compared to his wonderful private school because of an unresponsive principal and possibly-unresponsive teacher. That's pretty tacky.

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If you pull a child like this from private, it's possible they wouldn't admit you if you needed to use them again. Public has to take you no matter what.