Petty incident or detail that turned you off a school?

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Anonymous wrote:Entered a third grade classroom on a tour and noted the wall clock was stopped by five hours. I thought it showed a lack of care on the teachers part to leave it stopped and she missed opportunities to teach kids how to read a standard clock.

You know those clocks usually run on batteries and it’s entirely possible that it had stopped overnight, the teacher put in a maintenance request that morning and it just hadn’t been fixed yet. Sounds like the school avoided a crazy parent though.

+1. Holy Moly yes. Some of you are unreal. I’d hate to have you as guests in my home.

Maybe you missed the title of this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYC….artsy school that has no grades, No PTA, allows children to make decisions on their own with no parental parental input turned me off on the tour.

They literally said the K class had no curriculum. We were like… excuse me? Yeah… whatever subject the teacher wants to focus on during the year is their focus 🥴 We tried again. Uhmn… at some point, the teachers come together and decide on a curriculum? No?

Crickets….

I withdrew my application on the way out the door.

This is the opposite of petty.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell. Great school and we have many friends with kids there who love it and are happy. Unfortunately, during our Zoom information session, a few of the 5th or 6th graders that presented (and were great - all of them were intelligent, well spoken, absolutely lovely) noted how their teacher(s) helped when they were feeling anxious. The fact those children referred to feeling anxious at all during that type of presentation worried me. I felt it wouldn't be a good fit for our child.

Well all of these schools with a Socio-Emotional Learning curriculum obsessively talk to kids about anxiety starting in Kindergarten. So now every poor kid thinks they have anxiety but what they really have is crazy left-wing indoctrination.

Agree. They talk way more about test anxiety than they actually take any tests or assessments! And at extremely young ages they are turned anti-testing. My am kid came home saying Tests are Bad, and didn’t forget that phrase for a couple years. Totally out of context of course.

So coddled.

[Anonymous]

FFS, people, stay on topic. "Petty" means "of little or no importance or consequence". We want to hear dumb stuff that made you forego a school. Like the bell rang in minor rather than major key or the campus had an odd number of buildings. Disagreeing with the school on key points of educational philosophy is of great importance and consequence. You want to talk about those? Start a new thread.

[Anonymous]

During a shadow day, my child wasn't allowed to refer to the student ambassador by name and was only allowed to refer to the other child as "tour guide".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FFS, people, stay on topic. "Petty" means "of little or no importance or consequence". We want to hear dumb stuff that made you forego a school. Like the bell rang in minor rather than major key or the campus had an odd number of buildings. Disagreeing with the school on key points of educational philosophy is of great importance and consequence. You want to talk about those? Start a new thread.

LoL semantics police again.

Maybe DC parents are smarter than petty for turning away from schools.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t like the color of the front door; withdrew the app

Petty

[Anonymous]

Here’s a petty one: I hate the font of our school. All three of my kids went/go there, and we otherwise love the school, but ten years on I still hate that stupid font.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a petty one: I hate the font of our school. All three of my kids went/go there, and we otherwise love the school, but ten years on I still hate that stupid font.

Now, that's petty. Understandable. But also petty. What font is it?

[Anonymous]

I am a minority and all of the girls who are the same race as me and DD had this annoying trending hairstyle that I cannot stand. This actually became our litmus test as we visited all of the all girls schools that were on her list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:During a shadow day, my child wasn't allowed to refer to the student ambassador by name and was only allowed to refer to the other child as "tour guide".

Was this the kid’s rule or the school’s? That’s so weird! I can totally see my 2nd grader taking themselves too seriously and deciding this was a rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a minority and all of the girls who are the same race as me and DD had this annoying trending hairstyle that I cannot stand. This actually became our litmus test as we visited all of the all girls schools that were on her list.

This PP gets it! That is really petty and shallow and I’m here for it.

You have to tell us what hairstyle. My Asian DD is keeping careful track of all the girls who have dyed hair under their ponytails as part of her lobbying efforts for the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t like the color of the front door; withdrew the app

Petty

Our school just repainted all of the doors this summer. Hopefully it pays off!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a petty one: I hate the font of our school. All three of my kids went/go there, and we otherwise love the school, but ten years on I still hate that stupid font.

I hate the font of my alma mater. I buy multiples of things when they sell gear in an alternative font!

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I don't like the school mascot animal.