Anonymous wrote:Here's what you've learned about yourself, OP: you value feeling seen, heard, acknowledged, and remembered as much as you value the quality of your child's education. You will be better-served by paying for a smaller school system and student body.

However, it might also be worth taking to heart that it didn't even occur to you that there could be an occasion when acknowledging you, when you're doing just fine, might be a disservice to others who need resources more than you. This will come up again sometime when you are involved with a large organization of some kind. Work on thinking the best of people, and projecting outward, instead or wondering why they don't seem to care enough to make you feel good.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Here are the 2 emails sent with no response
1. Email sent to Principal/Registrar about withdrawing one child from Public school to move him to private - no reply/response - nothing. Not a word !!! They have deleted the student accounts etc. though so we know they have received our email.
2. Email sent to class teacher about collecting the school supplies from the class - not a word back from the teacher again

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time. The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system. Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here. What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity. What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs. What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense.

I appreciate that you have an open mind and you are just used to a different standard of responsiveness. Remember that private school need to court you to keep the $$ flowing. Public schools exist whether you attend or not. They have to triage the problems that need attention -- especially in the first week. It is sheer madness. I do think you will eventually get a response (probably by the weekend or early next week). But, it really doesn't matter b/c as far as they are concerned, you are doing what works for you and they don't need to know anymore than that.

OP here - Thank you once again. Its strange but most of the questions posted here have people jumping in with snark rude comments. Yes it was something very different from what we had seen in the earlier school which was a private, but what you have written explains it rather well. Having seen the private school administration and how they function in the last few years we felt it would be the same here as well. But as you have said there are other challenges here and probably other critical things to take care of, and bandwidth is low.

How often does your private school have enough new students show up a week before school that the school n3eds to hire a new teacher or two? That happened to 2 grades in my kid's elementary and happens every year or two.

Drawing personalized good luck cards to someone who never really attended the school and who is not going to attend the school is REALLY low on the priority list right now

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time. The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system. Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here. What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity. What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs. What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time. The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system. Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here. What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity. What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs. What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense.

I appreciate that you have an open mind and you are just used to a different standard of responsiveness. Remember that private school need to court you to keep the $$ flowing. Public schools exist whether you attend or not. They have to triage the problems that need attention -- especially in the first week. It is sheer madness. I do think you will eventually get a response (probably by the weekend or early next week). But, it really doesn't matter b/c as far as they are concerned, you are doing what works for you and they don't need to know anymore than that.

OP here - Thank you once again. Its strange but most of the questions posted here have people jumping in with snark rude comments. Yes it was something very different from what we had seen in the earlier school which was a private, but what you have written explains it rather well. Having seen the private school administration and how they function in the last few years we felt it would be the same here as well. But as you have said there are other challenges here and probably other critical things to take care of, and bandwidth is low.

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of funny that OP has two kids who previously attended private school (at least $40K for the two per year), and is sending her kids back to private school (another bill for $40K this year)... and yet, she expects to get $80 of school supplies back.

Stop jumping on her - she wrote above did not want them back.

She says that now, but a few minutes earlier, she admitted that she sent two emails and one was specifically addressed to the teacher(s) in order to GET THE SUPPLIES BACK.

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Op here. Here are the 2 emails sent with no response
1. Email sent to Principal/Registrar about withdrawing one child from Public school to move him to private - no reply/response - nothing. Not a word !!! They have deleted the student accounts etc. though so we know they have received our email.
2. Email sent to class teacher about collecting the school supplies from the class - not a word back from the teacher again

Her question though was " Is it normal to have no acknowledgement of emails in Public Schools". Am sure she is not crying over $80 of supplies when her kids are in private. Its the lack of response that she is questioning

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of funny that OP has two kids who previously attended private school (at least $40K for the two per year), and is sending her kids back to private school (another bill for $40K this year)... and yet, she expects to get $80 of school supplies back.

Stop jumping on her - she wrote above did not want them back.

She says that now, but a few minutes earlier, she admitted that she sent two emails and one was specifically addressed to the teacher(s) in order to GET THE SUPPLIES BACK.

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Op here. Here are the 2 emails sent with no response
1. Email sent to Principal/Registrar about withdrawing one child from Public school to move him to private - no reply/response - nothing. Not a word !!! They have deleted the student accounts etc. though so we know they have received our email.
2. Email sent to class teacher about collecting the school supplies from the class - not a word back from the teacher again

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time. The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system. Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here. What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity. What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs. What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense.

I appreciate that you have an open mind and you are just used to a different standard of responsiveness. Remember that private school need to court you to keep the $$ flowing. Public schools exist whether you attend or not. They have to triage the problems that need attention -- especially in the first week. It is sheer madness. I do think you will eventually get a response (probably by the weekend or early next week). But, it really doesn't matter b/c as far as they are concerned, you are doing what works for you and they don't need to know anymore than that.

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of funny that OP has two kids who previously attended private school (at least $40K for the two per year), and is sending her kids back to private school (another bill for $40K this year)... and yet, she expects to get $80 of school supplies back.

Stop jumping on her - she wrote above did not want them back.

She says that now, but a few minutes earlier, she admitted that she sent two emails and one was specifically addressed to the teacher(s) in order to GET THE SUPPLIES BACK.

I quote:

Op here. Here are the 2 emails sent with no response
1. Email sent to Principal/Registrar about withdrawing one child from Public school to move him to private - no reply/response - nothing. Not a word !!! They have deleted the student accounts etc. though so we know they have received our email.
2. Email sent to class teacher about collecting the school supplies from the class - not a word back from the teacher again

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of funny that OP has two kids who previously attended private school (at least $40K for the two per year), and is sending her kids back to private school (another bill for $40K this year)... and yet, she expects to get $80 of school supplies back.

Stop jumping on her - she wrote above did not want them back.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the principal is just glad you are leaving. Wow. You are not cut out for this at all.

Thank you. We are very glad we left. Clearly an environment where there are no basic courtesies and acknowledgements or respect for individuals, is not the one we want our children to be in. When our children left the private to join this public school, their teachers friends wished them the best, wrote notes. The school principal wished them the best in an email (hey the school was losing money right - well, he still did). And those are qualities we want to see later on in life in our kids - not just rating of 8-9 in schools where only SOL scores matter.

At the end of the school year, the students have nothing to do, so making some little art project "good bye" is a fine use of time. The first day of a school year is THE BUSIEST time of all -- and it's only 24 hrs since the first day -- and you are already incensed that you have been acknowledged for notifying the school that you don't want your kids to attend after the administration and your children's teachers spent time getting your children processed INTO the system. Now that you changed your mind, you want immediate responses?

Other than removing your kids from the rolls so that other kids can take their place and be assigned to those teachers, the principals and teachers need to put their attention on the kids that ARE ATTENDING the school and have more pressing needs (like getting medical information in place, or finding an extra teacher to hire because 25 kids registered on the first day, or making sure the doors to the school are secure and the fire alarms are working).

Think about the bigger picture here. What you want is a courtesy, but non-necessity. What you want does not need to happen in the first 24 hrs. What all the other kids in the school need DOES need to happen in the first few days of school.

OP here. Thank you for this - you have explained it very well and makes sense.