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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]

I am the PP you are responding to.  Actually, as other PP's have said, it depends on your school.  First day of school, we were allowed to to walk the kids to the multi-purpose room (3 steps inside the front door), but we were able to meet our kids' teacher at the open house a couple days before. Did you attend the open house?  The issue at our school on the first day is that there is not ample parking and people dawdling would muck up the bus arrivals.

But you have to understand that it is not just about what you want to do as a parent. Personally, I do not think that school personnel should be concerned about what "is a big loss" to you.  The school administrator has to consider what is best for all of the students and the teachers - and the security of the school.  I am sorry, but your ability to say goodbye to your child (and the parents of the other 75 K students), is not more important than my 2nd grader having a logisticially smooth first day of school.  [/quote]

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