I care because you block an entire street in my neighborhood and the cops won't let us drive around you (in the oncoming lane). So for an extended period of time, you shut down the road.

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh entitlement parenting at its finest. And all of the excuses that go along with it. But the activities! The doctors appointments! Pretending that all of those people waiting in line for that long are all the exceptions when we all know that it's not true. Those lines are full of parents coddling their children because little Larlo and Larlette "prefers" that their parents wait on them hand and foot.

There is a mom from one of my DD's HS sports teams that comes to pick up her daughter every day from school at 2:55 to drive her home so she can spend 15 minutes petting the dog before driving her back to the school for sports practice that starts at 3:30pm. All of the other athletes just stay after school and get ready for practice together. The mom says that "the dog misses her too much during the day" and needs some attention after school.

My DD has a classmate who goes home early and comes back like that. And while they give most people a silly little petting the dog excuse, the truth is that the child has a medical condition that makes certain bathroom stuff easier to manage with a quick break at home, and that’s the only way she can do another 2 hours of sports. I think it’s best to assume something like that is going on.

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh entitlement parenting at its finest. And all of the excuses that go along with it. But the activities! The doctors appointments! Pretending that all of those people waiting in line for that long are all the exceptions when we all know that it's not true. Those lines are full of parents coddling their children because little Larlo and Larlette "prefers" that their parents wait on them hand and foot.

There is a mom from one of my DD's HS sports teams that comes to pick up her daughter every day from school at 2:55 to drive her home so she can spend 15 minutes petting the dog before driving her back to the school for sports practice that starts at 3:30pm. All of the other athletes just stay after school and get ready for practice together. The mom says that "the dog misses her too much during the day" and needs some attention after school.

And you can tell which ones in the line are coddling and which are your “exceptions”? No, you can’t.

And I am also pretty sure that parent who picks up her DD and then returns her to school for practice made up the dog excuse because, really, why would she tell you the real reason when you are such an unpleasant person?

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh entitlement parenting at its finest. And all of the excuses that go along with it. But the activities! The doctors appointments! Pretending that all of those people waiting in line for that long are all the exceptions when we all know that it's not true. Those lines are full of parents coddling their children because little Larlo and Larlette "prefers" that their parents wait on them hand and foot.

There is a mom from one of my DD's HS sports teams that comes to pick up her daughter every day from school at 2:55 to drive her home so she can spend 15 minutes petting the dog before driving her back to the school for sports practice that starts at 3:30pm. All of the other athletes just stay after school and get ready for practice together. The mom says that "the dog misses her too much during the day" and needs some attention after school.

DC probably eats and then goes back.

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh entitlement parenting at its finest. And all of the excuses that go along with it. But the activities! The doctors appointments! Pretending that all of those people waiting in line for that long are all the exceptions when we all know that it's not true. Those lines are full of parents coddling their children because little Larlo and Larlette "prefers" that their parents wait on them hand and foot.

There is a mom from one of my DD's HS sports teams that comes to pick up her daughter every day from school at 2:55 to drive her home so she can spend 15 minutes petting the dog before driving her back to the school for sports practice that starts at 3:30pm. All of the other athletes just stay after school and get ready for practice together. The mom says that "the dog misses her too much during the day" and needs some attention after school.

Serious question: why do you care?

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Anonymous wrote:I have 2-3 kids in my ES class who are kicked up an hour early every day. Every day. They miss math every day. Their parents don’t seem to care. I’ve asked for if there was an issue with someone picking them up on time after school and they all said they didn’t want to wait in the car pool line. They asked me to send home their math for homework. Unbelievable.

I think that’s crazy of the parents, but I also think having math at the end of the day is a really bad way to structure a grade school class. Their brains are done for the day by the time you are doing some of the most academic work?? Kids who leave early for appts have to miss foundational learning? Not really very well thought out.

And not under teachers' control either like most aspects of education. So I guess it won't matter when these kids can't do any other math because they don't know what 5 represents. Kind of hard to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers when you don't actually understand what they represent.

Ahhhh entitlement parenting at its finest. And all of the excuses that go along with it. But the activities! The doctors appointments! Pretending that all of those people waiting in line for that long are all the exceptions when we all know that it's not true. Those lines are full of parents coddling their children because little Larlo and Larlette "prefers" that their parents wait on them hand and foot.

There is a mom from one of my DD's HS sports teams that comes to pick up her daughter every day from school at 2:55 to drive her home so she can spend 15 minutes petting the dog before driving her back to the school for sports practice that starts at 3:30pm. All of the other athletes just stay after school and get ready for practice together. The mom says that "the dog misses her too much during the day" and needs some attention after school.

Anonymous wrote:I have 2-3 kids in my ES class who are kicked up an hour early every day. Every day. They miss math every day. Their parents don’t seem to care. I’ve asked for if there was an issue with someone picking them up on time after school and they all said they didn’t want to wait in the car pool line. They asked me to send home their math for homework. Unbelievable.

I think that’s crazy of the parents, but I also think having math at the end of the day is a really bad way to structure a grade school class. Their brains are done for the day by the time you are doing some of the most academic work?? Kids who leave early for appts have to miss foundational learning? Not really very well thought out.

Just the whole idea of sitting around in a carpool line for an hour is so strange to me. I don’t get why kids wouldn’t just walk down to another spot and get picked up without all that waiting, unless we are talking about kindergarteners or something. I’ve always been able to pull up and pick up wherever I can find a place to park around my kids schools when needed but if the school rules had a carpool line I’d def find some other way to do it.

DC middle schooler has school dismissal at 2:15pm, and school bus gets our stop ( the last one) around 3pm. It’s a long ride but I’m just too laze to do pick up. I did once since it’s an after school rehearsal, and late bus would arrive at 5:30pm. I did 2 years ES pick up and had to wait in line 40 min in advance. Again I don’t see right or wrong about pick up or ride school bus, it’s just a personal choice.

my kid is in middle and rides the bus. the beginning of the year she was a little nervous about it. however, i completely agree that the line is ridiculously long! school is out at 2:34. the line forms at 1:40 (according to administration).

they move the kids quickly through and it's over and done with in a matter of 10 minutes.

i couldn't believe how early people got there. it felt like they did drop off and turned around and got back in line!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I have 2-3 kids in my ES class who are kicked up an hour early every day. Every day. They miss math every day. Their parents don’t seem to care. I’ve asked for if there was an issue with someone picking them up on time after school and they all said they didn’t want to wait in the car pool line. They asked me to send home their math for homework. Unbelievable.

That would be a hard nope from me. A hard nope. Those kids would simply fail.

Would they fail even if they knew the math?

If they get perfect scores on the assessments, they'd get a a C due to all of the missing classwork. Trust me, these kids don't know any of the math.

Why would I trust you?

The last assessment I gave (3-4 weeks ago), here were their grades. 29%, 36%, 47%, 49%. This is kindergarten BTW so some kids already know these concepts. It was based on numbers 0-10. We are now into addition and then subtraction. I suspect they will do even worse on this assessment.

LOL kindergarten?!?! Lady, get over yourself. No one gives a sh!t about kindergarten math.

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Anonymous wrote:I have 2-3 kids in my ES class who are kicked up an hour early every day. Every day. They miss math every day. Their parents don’t seem to care. I’ve asked for if there was an issue with someone picking them up on time after school and they all said they didn’t want to wait in the car pool line. They asked me to send home their math for homework. Unbelievable.

That would be a hard nope from me. A hard nope. Those kids would simply fail.

They might be doing much better math at AoPS or RSM

I doubt it. It’s a Title One school.

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Anonymous wrote:I have 2-3 kids in my ES class who are kicked up an hour early every day. Every day. They miss math every day. Their parents don’t seem to care. I’ve asked for if there was an issue with someone picking them up on time after school and they all said they didn’t want to wait in the car pool line. They asked me to send home their math for homework. Unbelievable.

That would be a hard nope from me. A hard nope. Those kids would simply fail.

Would they fail even if they knew the math?

If they get perfect scores on the assessments, they'd get a a C due to all of the missing classwork. Trust me, these kids don't know any of the math.

Why would I trust you?

The last assessment I gave (3-4 weeks ago), here were their grades. 29%, 36%, 47%, 49%. This is kindergarten BTW so some kids already know these concepts. It was based on numbers 0-10. We are now into addition and then subtraction. I suspect they will do even worse on this assessment.

I pick up my MS DD every day even though she has bus service. Why? Well, two days a week because she would be late to an activity if she took the bus instead. As to the other three days -- it's simply because it's her preference. I absolutely do have the time, which I love about my life. Zero apologies or shame there! That being said, I get there 15 min before dismissal -- not an hour. Our line moves fast, so it wouldn't make sense to get there that early. But I assume that on any given day there is a contingent of students who really need to be somewhere quickly after school or whose parents were coming from somewhere and it didn't make sense for them to go home first, etc..., and that these things explain most of the very early cars.

My DD is getting busier and busier with activities and spending time with friends. I honestly like our rides home together -- nice chats!