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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one those "wow" threads.  I have had 2 kids come through MCPS and I would be beyond pissed if schools allowed adults to come and go willy nilly.

Is that what some of you want?   To have adults wandering around your kids' school and hanging out in the classroom?

It is understandable to want to know waht is happening in school, but some of y'all need to cut the cord. [/quote]

OP here. When I asked about coming into the school, I was referring to dropping my child off either in her classroom or in the all-purpose room. I don't think it's a big "WOW" to do either of those things: the fact that here in MOCO I can't do either, and couldn't be there for my child's first day in K to walk her in, is a big loss to me, and her. And I think that's what most of us knew as kids. Are we messed up because our parents walked us into K the first day? If you think so, perhaps you need some serious hug therapy. IMHO.

In my years of school priior to this, in two other states, parents picked up child from their classroom in the younger years (which is a lot safer than our new school's practice of sending them outside to whoever is waiting for them there) or, picking them up from a designated room where the parent/guardian signed out each child individually. I am talking about young children, not middle or high school. And I value the home-school connnection, which here in MOCO seems to lip service. [/quote]

Again, you are attributing things to the entire county that are not applied county-wide. I was allowed to walk DD to her class her first day of kindergarten. I think the school allows it the first two days of kindergarten, but after the first day, we had our photo op, and checked out the classroom for boogie men. The teacher didn't appear to have two heads, so we dropped off at the front door, and let her do her job. We pick her up from the front lobby. If we have questions at pick up, we can walk into the office. What we can't do is have a mini teacher conference every day at pick up, which is what parents get used to in preschool, and what would ensue if schools didn't establish some boundaries.[/quote]

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