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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your school or school district will send surveys out, asking for what they can do to improve, etc. This is what you tell them, they need to plan events that are reasonable for working parents to attend. Our school is constantly scheduling events at inconvenient time with 1 or 2 days notice. I don't know if it's lack of planning or what, but it's super annoying and I let them know every time they send out a feedback survey.[/quote]

Our school records back to school presentations and sends links to watch later. Our school shows the “winter song along” and other daytime events on FB Live and I take a selfie of me at my desk watching my child and show them. I tell them their class will likely have 3-5 parties, 1-2 field trips, and maybe parents can come in on their birthday and that they can pick 1 day for each parent that they want us to prioritize. I email the teacher and say “I need to plan time away from work well in advance and Larla would like me to volunteer at the Halloween party if parents are allowed. Do you know when that typically is scheduled?”

But honestly? My mom didn’t even have a “BIG” job. She was a teacher in a neighboring school district and she used a personal day 1 time in 13 years to come to the award ceremony my senior year. She knew moms from the neighborhood and church who were at school during the day and she would have them say hi / cheer for me. They would often ask me to let them take a picture of me so my mom could see my poster, costume, etc. It never occurred to me to be sad because I knew she was working! [/quote]

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