The schools are out of control
When I open my kids backpacks at the end of the day, they are stuffed full of marketing, begging, junk mail, and catalogs. The teachers notes that accompany these materials make participation sound mandatory and non-participation punishable.
For example: PTA crap. The PTA is a self serving organization that does nothing but buy awards and spend money on activities for themselves. They do not serve students or the school. Nobody seems to recognize this. Why in the hell do elementary kids need a vending machine full of candy next to the gym? I'm not kidding.Why does the PTA need a $38,000 bank account for a barbecue and more fundraising?
Book clubs: I literally have a bag filled with 20Lbs of book club advertisements. All accompanied by dire warnings of the penalties for being late with your order.
Request after request for box tops and can labels for some contest on who can eat the most boxes of sugar smack crack cereal. Why on earth would I spend my free time cutting up trash to send to school and why should I feed my kids the garbage that they want labels from?
Boy scouts, YMCA, Unsupervised Adult Friend Campout. BULLSHIT if I'm sending my little ones alone with some god damned perverts. Do parents really leave their kids overnight with strangers these days?
The school even tries to scam me with photo packages that look like the official school pictures but are really some outside company trying to get the kids in for some extra photo shoots that have nothing to do with school.
I get the official stern letters about how it's time for my kids to go sell cookie dough and muffin mix door to door. They don't say what the money is for but if my kid sells 120 cases of frozen dough she gets a stuffed animal. The school makes these door to door sales things look mandatory and "everybody is doing their part". BULL HARKEY DONG! my child is not walking door to door peddling worthless shit to complete strangers who may or may not be on the sex offender list. Anyway, every other brainwashed asshole has already sent their kids off into the dark streets and alleys to sell this crap due to some sick peer presssure, conformity issue.
I get this permission slip the other day asking if it is ok if the school takes pictures, video tapes ,records and posts my childs personal information on the internet.
WHISKY TANGO FOXTROT What fool would agree to that? My god man! Are these people smoking crack?
I'm beginning to think that a frontal lobotomy is a job requirement for school administrators.
Labels: Rants
posted by Bill Rowland @ September 26, 2006
6 Comments
6 Comments:
I agree with you. It was for a reason I stopped working as a teacher. what annoyed me the most, as a Spes.Ped. teacher, was the fact that children with learning-problems were not helped by solving or reduce the problem . . . Rather the opposite.
I'm thankful sometimes that I never became a teacher. It's just as bad being a co-worker with someone who has kids. They shove that crap down our throats and throw a guilt trip in for good measure.
I remember the days of the Weekley Readers and chocolate bar sales. Back then, those were the only two things we had going for us. Unsupervised camping trips? Hell no! Dad was there with us, cocked and locked to keep the perverts at bay.
Gone are the days, and there's little we can do to change that.
Thank God that the schools in my country does not practise putting junk mails or catalogs.
And for any fund raising that anyone organise, it must apply for the license, and comply with very strict, long list of rules.
But what the top schools here practise is that if the parents want to get their childen in to the school, the parents need to be teh school volunnters or donate money to the school funds.
Oh man... I'm getting a taste of it, if you can tell by my blog today. We're also doing the cookie dough fundraiser. We still haven't sent the paper around. It's due October 2nd. I think I'll have my husband take it to work and I'll place an order.
Because I love cookies, but for no other reason. lol
Private schooling. Yeah, they have fundraisers too, but at least they know you can pull the plug on their income stream if they do not behave responsibly.
YMCA, you pay an ungodly amount per child each year so they can JUST GO to the YMCA and ya know what, if your children want to participate in the sports, they still have to pay extra, even if they have already forked out that ungodly amount. Can we cough BS?
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