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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving.  Wow.  You are not cut out for this at all.  [/quote]

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter. 
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At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time.  The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system.  Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here.  What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity.  What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs.  What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.  [/quote]

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense. [/quote]

I appreciate that you have an open mind and you are just used to a different standard of responsiveness.  Remember that private school need to court you to keep the $$ flowing.  Public schools exist whether you attend or not.  They have to triage the problems that need attention --  especially in the first week.  It is sheer madness.  I do think you will eventually get a response (probably by the weekend or early next week).  But, it really doesn't matter b/c as far as they are concerned, you are doing what works for you and they don't need to know anymore than that.[/quote]

OP here - Thank you once again. Its strange but most of the questions posted here have people jumping in with snark rude comments. Yes it was something very different from what we had seen in the earlier school which was a private, but what you have written explains it rather well. Having seen the private school administration and how they function in the last few years we felt it would be the same here as well. But as you have said there are other challenges here and probably other critical things to take care of, and bandwidth is low.  [/quote]

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