Reply to Why do schools ask us to do so much extra crap?!?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Why do schools ask us to do so much extra crap?!?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I can't keep track of it all. They send flyers, emails, Dojo messages, parent vue messages and also tell my kid things. Can they pick ONE method of communication and send everything through that??

My kindergartener keeps saying she wants to buy ice cream and the teacher told her to ask her mom for money. So my Kindergartener keeps asking me for "one penny" to buy the ice cream. I haven't been able to track down how much ice cream actually costs and what it's for. Is it a fundraiser? DD says they eat them on the playground during recess. Or is this a cafeteria dessert and I need to put money on her account at school (no clue how- she brings lunch). I've thought about sending her with a $1 and a $5, but maybe it's less?

Just one dumb example, but there is a ridiculous amount of "extra labor" that schools push onto parents. [b]I also think they haven't ever worked in a corporate environment so they have no clue how to communicate.[/b] Stop with the dumb frilly flyers with lots of misspellings and start sending concise emails with links that I can click that say "add to calendar". [/quote]

Yes! Also, the flyers with all the clipart and minimal details killllllls me.

I understand that many teachers right now don't even have a planning period because they are covering other classes (have heard this from 3 different teacher friends), but when you get a word-of-mouth half description of what is needed from your kid at 6 pm the night before, there's really no time to email the teacher. I mean, I do, but I've only gotten a reply back once before the next morning.

The last time it happened, my kid said he needed 22 boxes for the next day. I was so confused. I'd never seen a flyer or any message from the teacher on this. He was insistent that he was correct. I called another parent from the class with a girl because I've found the girls are usually 90% correct with relaying what the teacher said and boys tend to be about 45% correct. Anyway, that mom was confused too because she said her kid told her they needed boxes of cereal for the whole class. She didn't know if that meant a box for each kid or one box that would feed the whole class. I emailed the teacher and sent a box of cereal with my kid the next day. The teacher emailed back saying "more details will be coming home today!" and sure enough, my kid came home with a damn flyer. Each kid was supposed to bring 1 box of cereal for a Rube Goldberg type of deal. The cereal was then being donated to the food bank afterwards. I guess she told the kids about it and mentioned that they needed to remember to save empty cereal boxes or bring in a new box.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics