Anonymous wrote:I'm a former principal in a nearby school district and a current DCPS parent... posting class lists is a big privacy and safety concern. And just because something has "always been done that way" doesn't mean it should have.

DCPS makes you sign (or not sign) an opt-in form for precisely this kind of sharing. If a parent signs, there is zero issue with providing class list info

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t have a class list and I want one now!

Your room parent will put one together. The google sheet that people are passing around also has like 80% of the kids in the school. The school just isn't doing it for you this year.

I still don’t have a class list and I want one now!

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former principal in a nearby school district and a current DCPS parent... posting class lists is a big privacy and safety concern. And just because something has "always been done that way" doesn't mean it should have.

No it isn't. Don't be silly.

I'm a former principal in a nearby school district and a current DCPS parent... posting class lists is a big privacy and safety concern. And just because something has "always been done that way" doesn't mean it should have.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Never in my own time in public school nor as a parent of public school kids have I received a full class list, just my own or my kids assignments. Why is this an expectation?

Lafayette has always released the full class lists. It's an expectation because it's the norm there. Wy wouldn't you want to know that information? Y'all are even worse than the people you are complaining about. Dragging them just giggles.

That does put this whole thread into perspective. Change is always hard, especially when the change is to give families less information than they were used to receiving before. But it's still information that you will get eventually and I can't see how not knowing it for a few extra days affects how the rest of the school year will go. I definitely see how it benefits teacher and staff to delay the release for those few extra days.

At our school (Eaton), except for prek and K, class assignments are posted the Friday before school and teacher emails go out the same day. It works out fine. The excitement of the Friday announcement gets everybody through the last weekend of summer and carries into the first day of school.

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Never in my own time in public school nor as a parent of public school kids have I received a full class list, just my own or my kids assignments. Why is this an expectation?

Lafayette has always released the full class lists. It's an expectation because it's the norm there. Wy wouldn't you want to know that information? Y'all are even worse than the people you are complaining about. Dragging them just giggles.

Ugh Lafayette parents are so entitled.

Anonymous wrote:OMG. This whole thread is just more evidence of how difficult and needy the Lafayette parent base it. These are perfectly reasonable ways to approach the beginning of school. Stop Complaining about every tiny little thing that you disagree with!!! Save your lobbying for the big ticket items. You have turned yourselves into the joke of all DCPS parents and no one will listen to you when a real problem comes up.

Seriously! Like that crazy mom that posted on a FB group last year that dressing up like a a 100 year old for the 100th day of school was “ageist AF”? How much time did the Lafayette staff have to waste dealing with that? Life is not a smoothly paved road all the time people - save it for the big stuff!

OMG. This whole thread is just more evidence of how difficult and needy the Lafayette parent base it. These are perfectly reasonable ways to approach the beginning of school. Stop Complaining about every tiny little thing that you disagree with!!! Save your lobbying for the big ticket items. You have turned yourselves into the joke of all DCPS parents and no one will listen to you when a real problem comes up.

I’m confused. Never in my own time in public school nor as a parent of public school kids have I received a full class list, just my own or my kids assignments. Why is this an expectation?

And an "unknown situation"? FFS - it's your neighborhood elementary school! You need help!