Did ya ever get the feeling the right hand knows nothing about what the left hand is up to? That has been my evening.
Chris was gone from school most of the day for the school required job shadowing thing from my prior posts. At 5:30 this evening, the phone rings and it is an automated messge from the school board telling me that Chris missed one or more classes at school today and would I please follow up with my kid? Yeah, I followed up with him--he laughed his *** off. Then I called the little automated line at the school board, got routed to attendence and left my own message-----you people need to check your records--my son was out of class due to a SCHOOL required function.
Wonder if I'll get a call back? Yeah, I'll hold my breath.
Then the other son didn't come home with any kind of note about the field trip this Friday, so I called the school at 4 pm (that's when he gets off the bus) and left the principal a message to please return my call as I had an issue concerning my 7th grader. About 6:40 pm, the phone rang and guesss who it was? Nah, just his recording that "attention parents of 7th graders, they will be going to MU for ......." and he went on and on about it. He's still getting reamed---and if I don;t get satisfaction from him, then I start with the board office--and each elected board member if need be. It's absolutely asinine for them to think, as my neighbor told me she was told,that as long as the trip is inside the county, they can take our kids wherever without our permission. NOT!!!!!!! Not this mom's kids, they don't.
Parents of the world unite---until we do, the schools will continue to run roughshod over us and our kids will be the ones who suffer.
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