Anonymous wrote:BTSN is not a huge deal to miss. You will miss meeting the teacher and seeing the classroom, but if you went to the open house, you already did these things. You don't really get individual time with them, they just do a presentation, and that presentation can be shared with you if you can't attend.

I agree. Back to School Night isn’t the end of the world if missed. With that said, I do think APS should be a bit more fair when it comes to these events. We stopped going to this stuff after 3rd grade but I know it’s important to some families.

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Anonymous wrote:This comes up every year. Why can't APS find another solutions that will accommodate families with one parent or who have night jobs, etc.

So if they have it during the day, people with day jobs can’t go. When do you propose it happens?

I’m a teacher and we always send out the slideshow after to everyone. If you can’t come the information will be disseminated. Please don’t bring your kids. If you have 2 parents have one stay home with kids.

Not everyone has two or more parents at home which is the point. If they don’t want kids there, they should figure out an alternative. Otherwise expect some kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I was planning to go and just have my kids (3rd and 1st grade) play on the playground for an hour. Would that not be allowed?

No. Are you serious? Do you leave your 1st and 3rd grader routinely on playgrounds and leave to run errands? BTS night is in the evening and the teachers are indoors with the parents.

Only our school one which is a 2 min walk away. Third grader has a smart watch if that makes it seem less crazy. I am prob more free range than most but this really doesn’t crazy to me.

Anonymous wrote:If they want people to get sitters, they should really have announced the day/time by now.

Dates are published with the calendar. Every elementary school where I have worked/had kids attend does two sessions usually 6pm/7pm

Anonymous wrote:This comes up every year. Why can't APS find another solutions that will accommodate families with one parent or who have night jobs, etc.

So if they have it during the day, people with day jobs can’t go. When do you propose it happens?

I’m a teacher and we always send out the slideshow after to everyone. If you can’t come the information will be disseminated. Please don’t bring your kids. If you have 2 parents have one stay home with kids.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no kids, unless you need to bring the kids. Ours always has a few there.

This is it. There always a handful of kids. It's fine. Most people don't need to bring them and if you do, you do.

What I do find baffling is if both parents show up with kids. Send one parent. Nothing is that earth shattering.

+1 but also check with the school. Ours always provided supervised playtime in the gym for those who had to bring their kids. Still saw some kids with parents and that was fine too.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no kids, unless you need to bring the kids. Ours always has a few there.

This is it. There always a handful of kids. It's fine. Most people don't need to bring them and if you do, you do.

What I do find baffling is if both parents show up with kids. Send one parent. Nothing is that earth shattering.

This isn't so baffling in middle school or when you have multiple kids in the school. One parent can't get to both kids' classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school hasn't announced the time yet and unless you were in APS previously, you probably wouldn't know it's not ideal to bring your kiddos. We came from another district and their back to school nights involved the kids (important info they sent to parents). The couple years they tried it without kids, they provided childcare if needed in the gym with activities. It was a 30-45 minute ordeal. It worked out well. Not sure why APS is so ill equipped to have something similar.

Maybe because they're busy teaching children.

??? They're teaching children during BTSN?
Our elementary school did it when our kids were there.

BTSN is not a huge deal to miss. You will miss meeting the teacher and seeing the classroom, but if you went to the open house, you already did these things. You don't really get individual time with them, they just do a presentation, and that presentation can be shared with you if you can't attend.

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Anonymous wrote:I was planning to go and just have my kids (3rd and 1st grade) play on the playground for an hour. Would that not be allowed?

In the dark?

My kids walk to the playground from our house all the time. What’s the difference if I’m inside the building for B2SN. We live around the block. Sun doesn’t set until 7:30. They’ll be fine. Do people not allow their kids to walk to nearby playgrounds on their own??

No. The question was about ages 5, 6, 7, 8.

Anonymous wrote:I was planning to go and just have my kids (3rd and 1st grade) play on the playground for an hour. Would that not be allowed?

No. Are you serious? Do you leave your 1st and 3rd grader routinely on playgrounds and leave to run errands? BTS night is in the evening and the teachers are indoors with the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school hasn't announced the time yet and unless you were in APS previously, you probably wouldn't know it's not ideal to bring your kiddos. We came from another district and their back to school nights involved the kids (important info they sent to parents). The couple years they tried it without kids, they provided childcare if needed in the gym with activities. It was a 30-45 minute ordeal. It worked out well. Not sure why APS is so ill equipped to have something similar.

Maybe because they're busy teaching children.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was planning to go and just have my kids (3rd and 1st grade) play on the playground for an hour. Would that not be allowed?

In the dark?

My kids walk to the playground from our house all the time. What’s the difference if I’m inside the building for B2SN. We live around the block. Sun doesn’t set until 7:30. They’ll be fine. Do people not allow their kids to walk to nearby playgrounds on their own??

I didn’t allow my kids to do so at age 6, no.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was planning to go and just have my kids (3rd and 1st grade) play on the playground for an hour. Would that not be allowed?

In the dark?

My kids walk to the playground from our house all the time. What’s the difference if I’m inside the building for B2SN. We live around the block. Sun doesn’t set until 7:30. They’ll be fine. Do people not allow their kids to walk to nearby playgrounds on their own??