"...and don't forget that tomorrow is polka dot socks and silly hair day! Don't have polka dot socks? That's ok, Amazon can get some there by 4am. But shop local and join our Green Team!"
The information is always buried at least three layers deep! It's a text from the school to make sure you listen to the voicemail, which is a note that talks about updating the school dismissal manager!
You can reach all your child's teachers through email! The address is first name underscore last name hyphen dot capital letter school name dot org but also we don’t really have time to check email so it’s best to go through the app, and we will make every effort to respond within a week, long after the homework assignment you’re inquiring about is due! Note that you will need a password to set up your email account. Thank you for your patience as we decide what the email password will be. We will send the password through the app that you still need to figure out how to access. If you do not have the app password, we can email it to you.
It's the spirit nights for me. I love when you slap a fast food sticker in my kindergarten age child & tell them they HAVE to go tonight, all their friends will be there, tell your mom! Now I have to tell my overstimulated 5 year old that, no, we are not going to spend $50 on fast food for dinner tonight, we are having spaghetti & actually, no all your friends will likely not be there either. I swear this was like a once a week occurance 🙄
My oldest daughter’s school has a YouTube video to teach us how and where to pick up and drop off the kids. Thank you for this. I needed the belly laugh! And yes, we love you teachers and administrators and school staff!
Today's world is so wild—of course there is both a YouTube video and a paper map, and some other format for all of this. There are endless possibilities...
Tried to pay attention my oldest son’s first year of kindergarten. Now he’s third grader and on parent teacher night I asked his teacher to drop a reminder of actual important information in the classroom parent’s chat because I’m not reading another useless email from the school district and I’m certainly not paying any attention to anything the PTO puts out regarding Polka Dot socks day.
Homeschooling saves our sanity, not to mention all the time not wasted on these overbearing logistics! Thanks for another great reminder of what we don’t miss.
Woopsies didn’t finish my thought! December post about: the 1400 additional “optional” activities and outfits I have to prepare for. Examples - crazy hat day followed by crazy sock day followed by fave sports team day followed by fave suoerhero day, etc etc etc.
I bought Waldo hats for my kids (red and white) and they satisfy: cozy day, pajama day, the color red or white, winter festivities, minty white, Santa, holiday cheer, and costumes.
Ooh yes! Don’t forget about the sign-up to bring treats to the homeroom Holiday Party, but remember: No nuts or anything that touched nuts! No homemade, must have a label, except grapes because we are healthy, but don’t forget to cut the grapes in half because of choking risk. Also, the homeroom party is separate from the Advisory party - for the Advisory party, please bring in a gift valued at no more than $15 so that we can do Secret White Elephant Santa, it’s SO FUN!! Everyone will trade ~$15 of candy canes and Christmas-themed pencils with each other even though we celebrate and respect all holidays at our school. Don’t forget that our teachers, administrators and staff work so hard, they all deserve recognition this time of year in addition to Teacher Appreciation Week, so get shopping for those gifts or better yet, they all love handmade treats and notes! Finally, your kids will have end-of-grading period tests, quizzes and projects, even though we’ve been doing holiday word searches in class. Happy Holidays!
C. Quinn Smith (on LinkedIn) added this epic gem:
"...and don't forget that tomorrow is polka dot socks and silly hair day! Don't have polka dot socks? That's ok, Amazon can get some there by 4am. But shop local and join our Green Team!"
Where’s the text that tells us to read the email that you also told us about in the voicemail you left because we ignored your phone calls?
The information is always buried at least three layers deep! It's a text from the school to make sure you listen to the voicemail, which is a note that talks about updating the school dismissal manager!
You can reach all your child's teachers through email! The address is first name underscore last name hyphen dot capital letter school name dot org but also we don’t really have time to check email so it’s best to go through the app, and we will make every effort to respond within a week, long after the homework assignment you’re inquiring about is due! Note that you will need a password to set up your email account. Thank you for your patience as we decide what the email password will be. We will send the password through the app that you still need to figure out how to access. If you do not have the app password, we can email it to you.
Noooooooooooooooo it’s too real
Felt this one so deeply.
This reads like dystopian sci-fi but it's reality in the US, isn't it?
You nailed it. It is dystopian, and I wonder why I keep forgetting people's names. It's just an amazing amount of information thrown around.
It's the spirit nights for me. I love when you slap a fast food sticker in my kindergarten age child & tell them they HAVE to go tonight, all their friends will be there, tell your mom! Now I have to tell my overstimulated 5 year old that, no, we are not going to spend $50 on fast food for dinner tonight, we are having spaghetti & actually, no all your friends will likely not be there either. I swear this was like a once a week occurance 🙄
And don't forget, of that $50, the school will get about $5.
I’m anxious just imagining this, parents are so brave 😭
It's a fair amount of information that we get on a daily basis, for sure!
My oldest daughter’s school has a YouTube video to teach us how and where to pick up and drop off the kids. Thank you for this. I needed the belly laugh! And yes, we love you teachers and administrators and school staff!
Today's world is so wild—of course there is both a YouTube video and a paper map, and some other format for all of this. There are endless possibilities...
This is hysterical, true, and makes me so glad my kids are in their forties 🤣
Tried to pay attention my oldest son’s first year of kindergarten. Now he’s third grader and on parent teacher night I asked his teacher to drop a reminder of actual important information in the classroom parent’s chat because I’m not reading another useless email from the school district and I’m certainly not paying any attention to anything the PTO puts out regarding Polka Dot socks day.
Homeschooling saves our sanity, not to mention all the time not wasted on these overbearing logistics! Thanks for another great reminder of what we don’t miss.
As a teacher, I was always annoyed that parent didn’t read emails/check grades/etc but then I became a parent of school-aged children.
I get it now. Sorry fellow parents 😢
I can’t wait for your December post about
about?! Tell me!
Woopsies didn’t finish my thought! December post about: the 1400 additional “optional” activities and outfits I have to prepare for. Examples - crazy hat day followed by crazy sock day followed by fave sports team day followed by fave suoerhero day, etc etc etc.
I will be unable to write in December — I’ll be flat on my back crying or sleeping or fielding off a virus
I bought Waldo hats for my kids (red and white) and they satisfy: cozy day, pajama day, the color red or white, winter festivities, minty white, Santa, holiday cheer, and costumes.
Ooh yes! Don’t forget about the sign-up to bring treats to the homeroom Holiday Party, but remember: No nuts or anything that touched nuts! No homemade, must have a label, except grapes because we are healthy, but don’t forget to cut the grapes in half because of choking risk. Also, the homeroom party is separate from the Advisory party - for the Advisory party, please bring in a gift valued at no more than $15 so that we can do Secret White Elephant Santa, it’s SO FUN!! Everyone will trade ~$15 of candy canes and Christmas-themed pencils with each other even though we celebrate and respect all holidays at our school. Don’t forget that our teachers, administrators and staff work so hard, they all deserve recognition this time of year in addition to Teacher Appreciation Week, so get shopping for those gifts or better yet, they all love handmade treats and notes! Finally, your kids will have end-of-grading period tests, quizzes and projects, even though we’ve been doing holiday word searches in class. Happy Holidays!
Lmao yeah you guys get it!!!! Real talk tho I can confirm on absolute authority that teachers DO NOT WANT your homemade ish. Gift cards!!!
that spirit week PPS! 💯
Really threading the needle here between comedy and traumatizing
🤪
The administrative madness is everywhere!
Imagine how much of this could be solved if education were funded as well as defence
This is the realest real.