Confessions of one sahm

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Confessions of one sahm
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Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm

I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 11:20am
Our kids school schedules PTCs on early release days and then asks for both parents to attend if possible. Mostly, I see lots of moms there with kids in tow. But the schedule is equally inconvenient for WOHPs and SAHPs.
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Sat, 06-06-2009 - 11:23am

So, that doesn't make my statement any less misconstrued....by you!

And again, I think I have more experience with MY parochial school and the parochial schools in my area than you do. If there is a lack of volunteers in the parochial schools around you, that is a shame. We have so many volunteers that they have to turn people away.

And the parochial school my kids go to has always use hired buses for field trips.

But go ahead and keep generalizing that b/c you went to private school and know the private schools in your area, that what you experience must be the case with all of "the kind of private schools discussed here."

I don't understand what you mean by this:

"the kind of "private" schools discussed here - basically the parochial or the can't-have-my-kid-in-the-awful-city-public-school - don't have the resources that public schools do, whether through federal Title I funding or taxpayer revenue. So, of course, there's next to no parent volunteers in those types of private schools."

What does federal Title I funding and taxpayer revenue have to do with no parent volunteers in those types of private schools?

And oh by the way, our school does receive some funding from taxpayer revenue. We get it from the state for textbook funding.

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:04pm

<<I think what she's saying, though, is that what's the difference between a WOHP with a SAHP, and a SAHP with a WOHP? >>


isn't that like A + B = B + A ?????


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and that's ONLY IF the wohp has the flexibility to

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:08pm
we have phones in every room in our building, however the process is the same.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:10pm

I agree except that the way you stated it, the WOHP would be the one to go to school while the SAHP provided the childcare.

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Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:15pm

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Yes, exactly. So how would it be harder for a SAHP to have a parent visit with the teacher than a WOHP? The family is the same: 1 WOHP and 1 SAHP. The SAHP provides childcare while the WOHP visits the teacher.

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Yes, of course. Let's assume that family A and family B have the same flexibility.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:16pm
OH, I see what you're saying now. Thank you for the clarification. Ignore my previous post.
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Registered: 07-12-2005
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:30pm
I think a teacher refusing to do her job outside of her working hours is well within her right and within her job duties. I do not expect a retail clerk to sell me shoes at 2 AM, because it is outside the normal business hours. There is a contract. The contract spells out the hours of the teacher's job. The teacher is willing to do her job within those hours but not outside of them. How is that refusing to do her job?
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Registered: 07-12-2005
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:37pm
How can it be during the work day if the whole point was that it was outside of her contractual hours? or are you saying that her work day should be encompass her own working hours plus standard working hours of 9 to 5?
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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sat, 06-06-2009 - 12:40pm
And even during business hours, we're not always entitled to an immediate conversation with someone. Usually when I call my pediatrician's office with a question, I speak with a clerk who takes my contact information and the nature of my concern, and eventually a nurse calls me back. How long I have to wait depends on the urgency of the matter and how busy the nurse is at the time. Yet nobody could possibly say that the nurse isn't doing her job or that she is refusing to speak with me. A teacher that responds within 24-48 hours is doing her job.
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