How many "end of school" obligations do you have as a parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From mid-May to mid-June:

4 performances/class events - two at 9:00 am, two at 4:00 pm.
2 after-hours events at 6:00 pm (childcare provided)
2 Saturday events

The events during school hours are the ones I feel obligated to go to so I take off time from work (using annual leave) to attend those. The after hours and weekend things are totally optional, of course -- school auction, field day/end of year picnic, PTA meeting, etc. I don't always go to these but this year I have for some reason which is why I'm feeling about now that I spend as much time at school as work

And I only have one kid! More kids = more performances/events to attend during school hours.

Yikes. How does your workplace feel about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS. First grade.

We have field day and I think some kind of end of the year party. I haven't heard about the party and field day is in a week or so. There are a few PD days that are coming up still, I think, but not anywhere near as bad as the earlier part of spring semester when the kids basically were not in school a full week until April.

my DCPS doesn't have any PD days before the end of the SY.

-parent and teacher

[Anonymous]

One per grade so far. In PK it was a "graduation" complete with caps and gowns which I found absurd. Then this year it's a promotion ceremony. For both years the class party has immediately followed these events.

It appears the upper grades have some sort of end of the year performance for the adults, differs on topic depending on the grade. I understand the class party follows these.

There's field day, but it's not really attended by anyone other than the room mother and I think that's only because she stays at home anyway and likes to be in the classroom, frequently.

Given the myriad days off for other reasons in DCPS, I'm happy there aren't more things I need to figure out how to cover. The last week is already only 2.5 days, so covering the latter half of the week is a total pain already.

[Anonymous]

Poetry event, field day (optional), promotion ceremony, and we recently had a career day.

[Anonymous]

People just love to complain. Sucks to have your child at a school with fun, community-building events, I guess? I work full time and can't make it to everything but I so appreciate all the activities. I'm just So sick of the complaining by out of touch, Uber entitled parents, frankly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From mid-May to mid-June:

4 performances/class events - two at 9:00 am, two at 4:00 pm.
2 after-hours events at 6:00 pm (childcare provided)
2 Saturday events

The events during school hours are the ones I feel obligated to go to so I take off time from work (using annual leave) to attend those. The after hours and weekend things are totally optional, of course -- school auction, field day/end of year picnic, PTA meeting, etc. I don't always go to these but this year I have for some reason which is why I'm feeling about now that I spend as much time at school as work

And I only have one kid! More kids = more performances/events to attend during school hours.

Yikes. How does your workplace feel about this?

Yikes? If she has the time to take, why should it matter to her employer that she prioritizes activities involving her child? She mentions 4 events over a two month period that would require arriving late to work or leaving early. That doesn't seem "yikes" worthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From mid-May to mid-June:

4 performances/class events - two at 9:00 am, two at 4:00 pm.
2 after-hours events at 6:00 pm (childcare provided)
2 Saturday events

The events during school hours are the ones I feel obligated to go to so I take off time from work (using annual leave) to attend those. The after hours and weekend things are totally optional, of course -- school auction, field day/end of year picnic, PTA meeting, etc. I don't always go to these but this year I have for some reason which is why I'm feeling about now that I spend as much time at school as work

And I only have one kid! More kids = more performances/events to attend during school hours.

You must be at CMI.

[Anonymous]

Another one today. I have used more hours than I expected.