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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First day of kindergarten for my child.  They came off the bus all smiles, but I thought the transportation and getting the kids to class was pretty disorganized.  Buses were extremely late this afternoon.  Is this typical??[/quote]

OP here--yes, it's typical to have lots of disorganization early on.  I remember a few years back when SchoolMax (countywide computer) was new & and dozens of HS students at Roosevelt sat in the auditorium for over a week because classes couldn't be scheduled.  (You can read about it here:  http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-08-26/news/36841162_1_high-school-students-class-schedules-classes-tomorrow )

Less extreme was the phone recording I received tonight from PGCPS informing parents that Roosevelt has no lockers for another couple of weeks, so the teachers will be careful about not asking kids to lug books around.  In another example, my daughter told me that there's one chair too few in her AP classroom, so the last kid to the classroom gets to sit on the radiator...and the teacher joked that he'll send in a requisition, but it could take 8 weeks for a desk.

SO!  What happens is we've learned to laugh at the system.  "It's Prince George's County, what can you do?"  And we say & mean it with love, mainly because we've all been born and raised here.  One of my kids went to public school K-12, while three of my kids went to private K-8 (and one of my daughters was private K-12), so we've chosen to opt into this crazy system.  If it didn't have its upsides (such as an amazing school like Roosevelt!), we'd be less sanguine.  Similarly, if we had no choice, we'd likely be more frustrated.

The best thing I can recommend is not to sweat the small stuff, and lots of it is small stuff (though it seems pretty important at the time).  I've had to be pretty persistent in following up with administrators for scheduling mishaps, and I had to be seriously self-educated when it came time for college apps, but I really can't praise a school like Roosevelt highly enough.  The nature of the PGC school board sucks, but individual schools can really be impressive.[/quote]

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