Still baffled. If OP gets one ticket a week, she has before care for both kids paid for, with $ left for a decaf coffee from Starbucks ...and no stress.

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing this for no other reason than I LOVE Johnny Cash. And I drove past Janney today on my way to the Container Store.

Love it! Thank you, kindred spirit!

I LOVE Johnny Cash. So did my grandms; she was so hip. Or maybe I'm the hip one.
Anyhow, teacher here--no, 4th and 5h graders can't just mind themselves on school property OP. We live in lawsuit heaven in DC. If anything happened the school would get blamed for turning a blind eye. I totally agree with the PP who said parents should look out for kids. That's the way it was at another Janney like elementary my kid attended-there were a LOT of parents at drop-off and we minded each others kids. A big swarm of them, but enough parents to keep things safe.
Ironically, as a teacher my pet peeve is kids who come late. I am always trying to get kids in my clutches as early as possible.
If you want a teacher to supervise--teachers aide--don't assume they don't have other responsibilities at that time. Bring it up respectfully through your Parent Body--it probably could be done, or for a small fee. Security guards have iron clad contracts that I very much doubt include before school playground supervision.

But seriously, is this picture from something - some movie? you just don't have a picture like that laying around, do you? OMG, I just googled bum giving the finger and found it on flickr (which set off a fresh round of guffaws). OP gets pissed and googles bum giving the finger? OMG. Am having a tough week and this thread makes it all go away.

She took if from the ridiculous "someone made me cry in a separate thread so I'm posting this picture but not on that thread and I'm not going to tell you what thread it was because I'm so wussy and averse to conflict I can't even call someone out for saying something mean on an anonymous message board" thread.

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Anonymous wrote:The tone that people use in this forum turns my stomach. Instead of cruelly making fun of the original poster, try to understand his/her point of view and offer advice/guidance. This has been a massive pile-on and is embarrassing to the Janney community.

While I agree that many posters were unnecessarily cruel, many people DID offer many suggestions from morning care to reversing her drop off schedule to working with other families in the same situation. Also people indicated where she could park near the school. Many of whom are probably from the janney community.

Agreed. Tone became more helpful at the end. However, the first few pages were awful. Why post just to demean fellow parents, even if you disagree with them?

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I see your point, but you say "fellow parents" as though this means we must stick together no matter what. Why? Here was a person bad-mouthing the Principal of all people because she wants free morning care rather than adjusting her preferred schedule! And you really want to defend someone who posts that pic that she did? I have no more in common with OP than anyone else on the earth, parent or not! It's a message board -- she brought what she perceived to be a "real" problem to a message board rather than to the Principal or ANYONE at the school. Not sure why this deserves to be met ONLY with "try this" and "chin up", or the like. Maybe, just maybe some of the criticism made her realize how incredibly unreasonable her "demands" were. I hope for her kids that she calms down and becomes more reasonable.

Seriously, not only would I like to defend her posting of the pic, but I would like to actively encourage other posters to make much more frequent use of that feature. But only if the pic is similarly absofreakinglutely hilarious, of course.

How do you post pictures?

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Anonymous wrote:Here is what is disturbing...this mom or whatever she is goes to Janney. She clearly needs to be medicated and she is not working that hard at her job, because she has been doing this all day.

Now I am going to look around the school like "Good God, which one is she????"

Creeeeeeepy.

I mean, everyone knows the mentally ill are among us, but this is not good.

Mee too, when the directory come out I will be looking for the families with a 4th and 5th grader.

You don't need to wait. She's the one getting a ticket every day!

I am showing this to my office mates and they said WOW!!! One said I guess you can't "erase" that response with a number 2 pencil.

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Seriously, not only would I like to defend her posting of the pic, but I would like to actively encourage other posters to make much more frequent use of that feature. But only if the pic is similarly absofreakinglutely hilarious, of course.

I couldn't agree more. OP may be cuckoo, but she's got style.

That picture makes me literally laugh out loud for minutes at a time. I think it should be the official pictures for DCPS. Or DCPS parents. Or DCPS parents talking to private school parents. Or some thing.

Also, you can't leave out waddle up the hill in your capri pants.

But seriously, is this picture from something - some movie? you just don't have a picture like that laying around, do you? OMG, I just googled bum giving the finger and found it on flickr (which set off a fresh round of guffaws). OP gets pissed and googles bum giving the finger? OMG. Am having a tough week and this thread makes it all go away.

Seriously, not only would I like to defend her posting of the pic, but I would like to actively encourage other posters to make much more frequent use of that feature. But only if the pic is similarly absofreakinglutely hilarious, of course.

I couldn't agree more. OP may be cuckoo, but she's got style.

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Anonymous wrote:The tone that people use in this forum turns my stomach. Instead of cruelly making fun of the original poster, try to understand his/her point of view and offer advice/guidance. This has been a massive pile-on and is embarrassing to the Janney community.

While I agree that many posters were unnecessarily cruel, many people DID offer many suggestions from morning care to reversing her drop off schedule to working with other families in the same situation. Also people indicated where she could park near the school. Many of whom are probably from the janney community.

Agreed. Tone became more helpful at the end. However, the first few pages were awful. Why post just to demean fellow parents, even if you disagree with them?

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I see your point, but you say "fellow parents" as though this means we must stick together no matter what. Why? Here was a person bad-mouthing the Principal of all people because she wants free morning care rather than adjusting her preferred schedule! And you really want to defend someone who posts that pic that she did? I have no more in common with OP than anyone else on the earth, parent or not! It's a message board -- she brought what she perceived to be a "real" problem to a message board rather than to the Principal or ANYONE at the school. Not sure why this deserves to be met ONLY with "try this" and "chin up", or the like. Maybe, just maybe some of the criticism made her realize how incredibly unreasonable her "demands" were. I hope for her kids that she calms down and becomes more reasonable.

Seriously, not only would I like to defend her posting of the pic, but I would like to actively encourage other posters to make much more frequent use of that feature. But only if the pic is similarly absofreakinglutely hilarious, of course.

Why not sign your kids up for before care? Janney offers it. for $85/mo.

http://www.janneyschool.org/Enrichment/Enrichment.html

We are in a different DCPS with similar rules surrounding drop off in the morning. I think that the 8:30 thing is pretty standard for unassisted drop off for 1st grade and up.

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OP, you need to enroll your Janney kids in Before Care.


From the Janney website:

Janney in the Morning Hours are 7:45 – 8:45 a.m.



More $$.

Guess you should have thought about this before "going for a third," or whatever those recurring threads are called every 31 days like clockwork. It's a bitch. That's why so many of us, nay, the majority even, stop at 2 or even 1 kid. It's expensive and hard.

AMEN!!! I wonder what would happen if they started charging those "going for a third" a population-control fee.

Actually, there should be tax incentives or subsidies for just that. Our population is aging into an inverted pyramid. Too many old baby boomers who want the rest of us and our children and grandchildren to pay for them to be on Social Security indefinitely. Your children are going to be slaves to the entitlement programs because there aren't enough young people to carry the burden of the old on their backs.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you taken your concern directly to the principal?

No I haven't--by the scolding tone of these newsletter warnings about coming "early" I wouldn't think she'd be very receptive. They are very punitive in this school even if your little pre-kr is late because of emotional melt down and poop attack while there older sib is now late too because of it you are just TARDY no excuses tolerated. And pretty soon they're dragging you in for a conference if your child is sick and you call it in but fail get an OK from the principal. Parents do not have the autonomy to call their child in sick ANYMORE. I find that INCREDIBLY intrusive. I really would like to get a sense here if others are finding the tone to be heavy handed.

Hell yeah. If a parent can't call the child in sick, then who pray tell, can? Surely you're not supposed to take your child to the doctor for every little fever or spit-up. That's just infantilizing.

Anonymous wrote:I made a couple of suggestions about before-care and parking, as well as neighbors who would be willing to help and the OP became more and more belligerent and, frankly, strange.

I don't blame some of the posters for getting fed-up. The OP posted e-mails from the principal that were meant for parents and showed them in a light to hurt the principal and the school. The OP has the right to do that here, and people have the right to call her crazy and tell her to shut up and deal.

Well said. It didn't seem to me based on OP's responses that she was interested in hearing any reasonable suggestions. She wanted people to pile on the Principal and the school and "join voices" with her to get free morning care! Surprisingly, she didn't get that... ...

I made a couple of suggestions about before-care and parking, as well as neighbors who would be willing to help and the OP became more and more belligerent and, frankly, strange.

I don't blame some of the posters for getting fed-up. The OP posted e-mails from the principal that were meant for parents and showed them in a light to hurt the principal and the school. The OP has the right to do that here, and people have the right to call her crazy and tell her to shut up and deal.