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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like it happens every year.  I'm contacted by some acquaintance with a 3 year old who just got into my kids' neighborhood public school (one seen by many on this list as 2nd tier). They are "excited," they want to "learn all about it," and they want to know what our experience has been.  So, I dutifully answer their questions and they enroll, only to bail for a charter school at the first opportunity.  There seems to be an inverse relationship between their initial enthusiasm and the time their child actually spends at the school.  [/quote]

They are doing what they think is best for their child and themselves. There is more to life than yourself and what you think is right or wrong.....well, at least you know you're venting.... [/quote]

OP here.  Nowhere in this message did I imply that they were NOT doing what was best for their child and themselves.  That is clearly what they (think they) are doing.  However, when they do this, it is not like their actions just affect themselves and their own kids.  As stated above, the problem is that they waste everyone's time with their incessant questions (and, as pointed out by another poster) completely OOT boosterism, only to bail for the next "better" (and I'm using "better" in quotes to show sarcasm (read "alleged") - quotations used as emphasis are just sloppy and bad writing) school that comes along.  If you're that unsure, enroll your kid and see for yourself - quietly.  Don't desperately try to recruit others so that you can get to some critical mass of people who look just like you and then bail when your unrealistic quotas are not met.

And, to clarify, I'm not talking about people who struggle along for years and quit in 1st or 2nd or 3rd grade because the school is just not working for them.  They have honestly tried.  I'm talking about the parents who waste all of my time with question after question (even after I send them a detailed email) and seem to want me to promise that everything will be happiness and bunny rabbits, only to bail 2 weeks in.[/quote]

OP, I am sympathetic. I think that many of these people do not always recognize the way that they come off. Our biggest booster decided to go to a charter the week before school started, then came back, and then left again when they got a seat at a school with better scores and a stable feeder pattern. I don't at all resent them for their decision and know that it was not an easy decision for them to make, but it's hard when a very vocal supporter leaves. People will inevitably want to know why.

The worst, to me, is actually when people who have moved on (whether they moved on 2 weeks into PK3 because they got into a charter or a couple years in) who then trash the school online or talk about their experience (several years removed) as though it was currently applicable to the school. It feels to me like people who pan a movie that they walked out of halfway through.[/quote]

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