Parents and school involvement
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| Thu, 08-23-2007 - 8:49am |
My question stems from a personal experience. My middle child is starting kindergarten next week. I've become fairly close with one of my dd's friend's moms- this is her first child entering the school system. She WOH, I do not, plus I have experience with the school, so she's been calling me with questions and comments.
It started to go bad when she called to complain that the kindy orientation is during the day- when she is working. Then it led to complaints about the parents' read aloud program (when the kids are in library) and other opportunities for volunteerism in the school. I get that these things aren't convenient for her, but I'm getting annoyed with the complaining. How can the kids have an orientation at night when they go to school during the day? None of these events are mandatory for parents or kids. And plenty of activities are scheduled for evenings: Back to school night, the PTA picnic, etc.
She thinks because she can't participate, no one should be able to, apparently. Plenty of WOHP do show up for these things. I think she's being unrealistic if she thought she could put a couple of kids through school without ever taking a vacation day. Am I wrong? Am I missing something here?

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well, in our school volunteers are not being used as playground or lunchroom monitors. and yes, volunteers do help keep the cost of certain things down but they add so much more to the school.
No, according egd, parochial school is not the same as private school.
Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski
Ahhh, I forgot I was supposed to differentiate!
"I've spent years looking into the topic and don't really feel that the two of you have the necessary background to handle a conversation about what constitutes an appropriate education, or at least the kind of education I hope for for my kids, and how to determine if that education is being successfully executed."
So this is not an insult? She could have just said that I would probably not be interested. No, she had to insult my background, not that she knows ANYTHING about my background.
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