Anonymous wrote:This is the second time this was in the newsletter from the principal at Janney:-     "  As mentioned last week, student arrival is at 8:35. Thank you for being on time and for remembering that all students must be accompanied by an adult before 8:35. Until then, no Janney adults will be present on the playground, and supervision is critical to our students' safety. In the rare case that you arrive after your class has entered the building, please proceed through the main entrance."
I have seen a security guard (name begins with P) scolding 9 year olds to GET OFF THE SWINGS! and GET OFF THE PROPERTY! at 8:00 AM. I drop my kids (aged 10 and 11 off at 8:15 most days so that I can get my other child to her school.

I should preface by sayying there are no less than 4 or 5 security guards who sit (together!) on their duffs most of the day in a specially built "security room" at Janney. Who knows what that costs. But there is NO PARKING at Janney whatsoever this year so you have to walk your kid in or drive an d drop them at the door. For families who have multiple kids at other schools, this makes it impossible to be on time everywhere unless some kids are dropped off EARLY. I wish that the principal could be more sensitive to the plight of many parents who need to drop kids off at the playground @ 8:00. Would it kill the security guard to get up from the little folding chair and survey the kids on the playground for a few extra minutes? Or a teacher's aide perhaps--or just leave 4th and 5th graders to their own devices in a fenced in playground on school grounds for a few extra minutes ? Parents have already got so much on their plates with shuttling kids to multiple schools through horrible traffic, PREDATORY TICKETING OFFICERS ON $$$ SEGWAYS It is just putting families into a frenzy just to drop children off at school. Why are we as parent allowing the school to attack us this way? There needs to be some serious push back.

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Anonymous wrote:YIKES!

I'm as saddened and disappointed as the rest of you, my fellow EMTs and ER Docs, but this patient is dead. Alas, it gave up its spirit a few pages ago.

If anyone would care to present (real or psychotic!) an imaginary crisis** please do. And please do it soon! DCUM is about to be so much less fun otherwise.

**"Imaginary crisis" - these are otherwise known as "rich people's problems." For example, if the following are your ideas of the problems in your life? You clearly feel the need to make shit up, because you have been so privileged, for so long, that you have no idea what an actual problem looks like.

I can't park where I want to for a 10 minute interval because it's illegal. And if I do? I get a parking ticket!

I bought a house that is so expensive that I can't afford private school, but yet I hate the local public school. I deserve another option!

My child can't eat peanuts, but I can't bring myself to teach him about his own allergies and develop a sense of responsibility or ownership for his health. Instead, the rest of the world must stop eating peanuts, just in case he might stroll by.

U had me until u brought up the peanuts. IMHO, the pro-peanut crowd at Janney is crazier and generates more of an "imaginary crisis" than the anti-peanut contingent.

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Anonymous wrote:YIKES!

I'm as saddened and disappointed as the rest of you, my fellow EMTs and ER Docs, but this patient is dead. Alas, it gave up its spirit a few pages ago.

If anyone would care to present (real or psychotic!) an imaginary crisis** please do. And please do it soon! DCUM is about to be so much less fun otherwise.

**"Imaginary crisis" - these are otherwise known as "rich people's problems." For example, if the following are your ideas of the problems in your life? You clearly feel the need to make shit up, because you have been so privileged, for so long, that you have no idea what an actual problem looks like.

I can't park where I want to for a 10 minute interval because it's illegal. And if I do? I get a parking ticket!

I bought a house that is so expensive that I can't afford private school, but yet I hate the local public school. I deserve another option!

My child can't eat peanuts, but I can't bring myself to teach him about his own allergies and develop a sense of responsibility or ownership for his health. Instead, the rest of the world must stop eating peanuts, just in case he might stroll by.

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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.

Oh, for comedic purposes, SURE - defend away!! But to seriously defend her "arguments"... YIKES!

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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.

Oh, for comedic purposes, SURE - defend away!! But to seriously defend her "arguments"... YIKES!

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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.