Anonymous wrote:Sad the teachers have to worry about crazy parents showing up to the meetings. Sorry for the kids that have to put up with these parents. No wonder there is such a big problem with teen depression and suicide in this county.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't announce it because they don't want some nutty parents w kids not accepted crashing the orientation! All it takes is one....checking out who got in while Her dc didn't etc etc.

This is exactly why. You would be surprised how many people try to come to the one at Haycock.

Anonymous wrote:They don't announce it because they don't want some nutty parents w kids not accepted crashing the orientation! All it takes is one....checking out who got in while Her dc didn't etc etc.

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Anonymous wrote:What's your case? That I'm not "chill" because my employer expects a reasonable amount of notice if I'm not going to be in the office doing the job they're paying me to do? Because if we get the letter on a Saturday and the orientation is that Monday, my taking time off from work unexpectedly will inconvenience a lot of people besides me. If the school would tell me when the orientation is, I can block the time now and my colleagues will plan around it. That's a simple courtesy. It must be nice to be so "chill" you don't care whether other people are inconvenienced.

[And yes, I know blocking the time on my calendar doesn't guarantee DC will get into AAP, but where I work it's easier to take things off the calendar than it is to put them on unexpectedly.]

It was more of a PSA, there are many more things like this in the next 15 years of your child's education. Breath, relax, make the plans you need to, build in flexibility into your day and life, get a massage, learn to meditate mindfully. Or else you will be on multiple BP medicines like the ones who came before you.

Good advice "make the plans you need to." Not sure how pp will do that if the school won't tell her the date for the orientation, even though the date is already set. "Learn to meditate mindfully," I'm sure that will be really helpful to her coworkers. I think the point is the school could make things a lot easier if they would just provide that information since they definitely already know it. If pp was only complaining about how long it's taking for the results to be sent because she just wants to know if her DC is in, I would get your point, but I think her frustration with not being told the orientation date, which has already been determined, is valid. I get why people in Arlington laugh at the dysfunction of the whole AAP process and think that APS is better run. FCPS is totally ridiculous in administering the circus they created. I have to say, after hearing all the hype about FCPS, I'm not impressed now that I actually have kids in the system. Maybe it was better back in the day, but I have to say it's not anything to be impressed with in it's current state.

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Anonymous wrote:What's your case? That I'm not "chill" because my employer expects a reasonable amount of notice if I'm not going to be in the office doing the job they're paying me to do? Because if we get the letter on a Saturday and the orientation is that Monday, my taking time off from work unexpectedly will inconvenience a lot of people besides me. If the school would tell me when the orientation is, I can block the time now and my colleagues will plan around it. That's a simple courtesy. It must be nice to be so "chill" you don't care whether other people are inconvenienced.

[And yes, I know blocking the time on my calendar doesn't guarantee DC will get into AAP, but where I work it's easier to take things off the calendar than it is to put them on unexpectedly.]

It was more of a PSA, there are many more things like this in the next 15 years of your child's education. Breath, relax, make the plans you need to, build in flexibility into your day and life, get a massage, learn to meditate mindfully. Or else you will be on multiple BP medicines like the ones who came before you.

Good advice "make the plans you need to." Not sure how pp will do that if the school won't tell her the date for the orientation, even though the date is already set. "Learn to meditate mindfully," I'm sure that will be really helpful to her coworkers. I think the point is the school could make things a lot easier if they would just provide that information since they definitely already know it. If pp was only complaining about how long it's taking for the results to be sent because she just wants to know if her DC is in, I would get your point, but I think her frustration with not being told the orientation date, which has already been determined, is valid. I get why people in Arlington laugh at the dysfunction of the whole AAP process and think that APS is better run. FCPS is totally ridiculous in administering the circus they created. I have to say, after hearing all the hype about FCPS, I'm not impressed now that I actually have kids in the system. Maybe it was better back in the day, but I have to say it's not anything to be impressed with in it's current state.

How hard is it to block out the time now? If you unblock it because your child wasn't accepted, then you unblock it- or take the afternoon off and and do something fun.

It's hard to block out the time now when I don't know what period of time to block. If the center school would stop acting like it's top secret information, I could easily block the time and unblock it if DC isn't accepted. But this minor irritation hardly warrants deep breathing, a massage or mindful meditation. Maybe just a glass of wine with friends.

Call the school and ask when the orientation is. Easy peasy.

You must have come in to the middle of the thread. It should be "easy peasy", but it's not. I called the school and they said "it will be in the acceptance letter". And it's not on the school website. Not really impressed with the attitude at the center school so far.

Email the president of the PTA -- (s)he should know.

The orientation is not important, imo.

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Anonymous wrote:What's your case? That I'm not "chill" because my employer expects a reasonable amount of notice if I'm not going to be in the office doing the job they're paying me to do? Because if we get the letter on a Saturday and the orientation is that Monday, my taking time off from work unexpectedly will inconvenience a lot of people besides me. If the school would tell me when the orientation is, I can block the time now and my colleagues will plan around it. That's a simple courtesy. It must be nice to be so "chill" you don't care whether other people are inconvenienced.

[And yes, I know blocking the time on my calendar doesn't guarantee DC will get into AAP, but where I work it's easier to take things off the calendar than it is to put them on unexpectedly.]

It was more of a PSA, there are many more things like this in the next 15 years of your child's education. Breath, relax, make the plans you need to, build in flexibility into your day and life, get a massage, learn to meditate mindfully. Or else you will be on multiple BP medicines like the ones who came before you.

Good advice "make the plans you need to." Not sure how pp will do that if the school won't tell her the date for the orientation, even though the date is already set. "Learn to meditate mindfully," I'm sure that will be really helpful to her coworkers. I think the point is the school could make things a lot easier if they would just provide that information since they definitely already know it. If pp was only complaining about how long it's taking for the results to be sent because she just wants to know if her DC is in, I would get your point, but I think her frustration with not being told the orientation date, which has already been determined, is valid. I get why people in Arlington laugh at the dysfunction of the whole AAP process and think that APS is better run. FCPS is totally ridiculous in administering the circus they created. I have to say, after hearing all the hype about FCPS, I'm not impressed now that I actually have kids in the system. Maybe it was better back in the day, but I have to say it's not anything to be impressed with in it's current state.

How hard is it to block out the time now? If you unblock it because your child wasn't accepted, then you unblock it- or take the afternoon off and and do something fun.

It's hard to block out the time now when I don't know what period of time to block. If the center school would stop acting like it's top secret information, I could easily block the time and unblock it if DC isn't accepted. But this minor irritation hardly warrants deep breathing, a massage or mindful meditation. Maybe just a glass of wine with friends.

Call the school and ask when the orientation is. Easy peasy.

You must have come in to the middle of the thread. It should be "easy peasy", but it's not. I called the school and they said "it will be in the acceptance letter". And it's not on the school website. Not really impressed with the attitude at the center school so far.

Email the president of the PTA -- (s)he should know.

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Anonymous wrote:What's your case? That I'm not "chill" because my employer expects a reasonable amount of notice if I'm not going to be in the office doing the job they're paying me to do? Because if we get the letter on a Saturday and the orientation is that Monday, my taking time off from work unexpectedly will inconvenience a lot of people besides me. If the school would tell me when the orientation is, I can block the time now and my colleagues will plan around it. That's a simple courtesy. It must be nice to be so "chill" you don't care whether other people are inconvenienced.

[And yes, I know blocking the time on my calendar doesn't guarantee DC will get into AAP, but where I work it's easier to take things off the calendar than it is to put them on unexpectedly.]

It was more of a PSA, there are many more things like this in the next 15 years of your child's education. Breath, relax, make the plans you need to, build in flexibility into your day and life, get a massage, learn to meditate mindfully. Or else you will be on multiple BP medicines like the ones who came before you.

Good advice "make the plans you need to." Not sure how pp will do that if the school won't tell her the date for the orientation, even though the date is already set. "Learn to meditate mindfully," I'm sure that will be really helpful to her coworkers. I think the point is the school could make things a lot easier if they would just provide that information since they definitely already know it. If pp was only complaining about how long it's taking for the results to be sent because she just wants to know if her DC is in, I would get your point, but I think her frustration with not being told the orientation date, which has already been determined, is valid. I get why people in Arlington laugh at the dysfunction of the whole AAP process and think that APS is better run. FCPS is totally ridiculous in administering the circus they created. I have to say, after hearing all the hype about FCPS, I'm not impressed now that I actually have kids in the system. Maybe it was better back in the day, but I have to say it's not anything to be impressed with in it's current state.

How hard is it to block out the time now? If you unblock it because your child wasn't accepted, then you unblock it- or take the afternoon off and and do something fun.

It's hard to block out the time now when I don't know what period of time to block. If the center school would stop acting like it's top secret information, I could easily block the time and unblock it if DC isn't accepted. But this minor irritation hardly warrants deep breathing, a massage or mindful meditation. Maybe just a glass of wine with friends.

Call the school and ask when the orientation is. Easy peasy.

You must have come in to the middle of the thread. It should be "easy peasy", but it's not. I called the school and they said "it will be in the acceptance letter". And it's not on the school website. Not really impressed with the attitude at the center school so far.

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Anonymous wrote:What's your case? That I'm not "chill" because my employer expects a reasonable amount of notice if I'm not going to be in the office doing the job they're paying me to do? Because if we get the letter on a Saturday and the orientation is that Monday, my taking time off from work unexpectedly will inconvenience a lot of people besides me. If the school would tell me when the orientation is, I can block the time now and my colleagues will plan around it. That's a simple courtesy. It must be nice to be so "chill" you don't care whether other people are inconvenienced.

[And yes, I know blocking the time on my calendar doesn't guarantee DC will get into AAP, but where I work it's easier to take things off the calendar than it is to put them on unexpectedly.]

It was more of a PSA, there are many more things like this in the next 15 years of your child's education. Breath, relax, make the plans you need to, build in flexibility into your day and life, get a massage, learn to meditate mindfully. Or else you will be on multiple BP medicines like the ones who came before you.

Good advice "make the plans you need to." Not sure how pp will do that if the school won't tell her the date for the orientation, even though the date is already set. "Learn to meditate mindfully," I'm sure that will be really helpful to her coworkers. I think the point is the school could make things a lot easier if they would just provide that information since they definitely already know it. If pp was only complaining about how long it's taking for the results to be sent because she just wants to know if her DC is in, I would get your point, but I think her frustration with not being told the orientation date, which has already been determined, is valid. I get why people in Arlington laugh at the dysfunction of the whole AAP process and think that APS is better run. FCPS is totally ridiculous in administering the circus they created. I have to say, after hearing all the hype about FCPS, I'm not impressed now that I actually have kids in the system. Maybe it was better back in the day, but I have to say it's not anything to be impressed with in it's current state.

How hard is it to block out the time now? If you unblock it because your child wasn't accepted, then you unblock it- or take the afternoon off and and do something fun.

It's hard to block out the time now when I don't know what period of time to block. If the center school would stop acting like it's top secret information, I could easily block the time and unblock it if DC isn't accepted. But this minor irritation hardly warrants deep breathing, a massage or mindful meditation. Maybe just a glass of wine with friends.

Call the school and ask when the orientation is. Easy peasy.