1. Our school does integration week, where they start sloooooowly. So this friday is Anna's last day of daycare. Then next week, I have her home Monday and Tuesday. School starts Wednesday, but only 90 minutes the first day, with the parents. Then Thursday she has no school. Then Friday, she has school all morning, afternoon off. Monday is labour day. Tuesday she has school all afternoon, morning off. And THEN, on wednesday the 4th, she finally has a FULL day of school. WTF am I supposed to do with her? I have to work next week. MIL takes her monday, then I will work from home and have her watch TV a few hours a day. Ugh.
2. We have to label ALL THE SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Including pencils, crayons, markers. Pencils and wood crayons have to be sharpened and identified. We spent TWO HOURS doing that yesterday. TWO HOURS putting name labels on the million crayons/pencils/etc that we had on our school list.
3. She needs inside shoes and outside shoes. Bye bye $$$. And she normally goes through 2-3 sizes per year.
I am glad we are walking Jack to school. There are so many rules about pick up/drop off and I am stressed at the idea of even having to sit in the car line lol.
That is it. We haven't started so I don't have any complaints yet. I keep thinking about that sweeet sweeeet $900 that is going to be sitting in my checking account next month. OOOOHHH YEAH.
Wow #1 is ridiculous. Not at all for working parents
I know, right? My friends all either took the week off, or have family take the kids on the off days. I can't really take the week off roght before the beginning of the fall semester, I have a million things to do.
Apparently it is better starting in grade 1. Two half days, and then move to full days.
What is the reason behind the shoe thing? A germ thing? Seems very silly to me.
Our school district is full of over educated types and I was just certain our school lists would be insufferable. I was very pleasantly suprised. We didn't have to buy much and there were not many rules. I underestimated my people. :-)
Post by Ohhmm(bligo) on Aug 19, 2013 9:43:56 GMT -5
I've got nothing compared to yours, which are all actual annoyances. But I'll play anyway. 1. My courses start next Monday, I don't have my books yet. 2. I thought I would have all of next week to get back into the groove of college, and THEN start work. But now I got placed back with my client in a different school district, which starts Tuesday. So it's a busy busy week, followed by Kristen and my 2nd client starting the week after, on Tuesday. 2a. MAYBE. Because the elementary school has been in a wreck of a disaster of a clusterfuck of a renovation since winter, and there is asbestos and mold popping up everywhere, and they are way behind, and no one has any idea if they'll even be able to open it. I'm saying that there are giant holes in Kristen's wing where all of the windows and doors should be, and there's no entrance or office, since the douchewagons ripped the old one out BEFORE even breaking ground on the new one. Which still hasn't been started.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
What is the reason behind the shoe thing? A germ thing? Seems very silly to me.
Our school district is full of over educated types and I was just certain our school lists would be insufferable. I was very pleasantly suprised. We didn't have to buy much and there were not many rules. I underestimated my people. :-)
I have no idea. But apparently it is a very common thing here in QC (or in Canada in general?). Starting in late october they will need boots anyway for outside until like april, so I am annoyed that they can't have just one pair of shoes until then.
SD1s friends were all getting their schedule for the first year of middle school (changing classes etc). She kept calling BM but she wouldn't give her schedule. Finally she quit answering and said she was pestering her so she would have to wait until tomorrow. SD1 was crying.
I suspect she was out drinking and spending the night at her boyfriends house (typical weekend night for her) and wasn't at home to get the mail. SD has her schedule now but ugh.
Oh I have a complaint, next week our university starts up classes so our lives go back to insanity. Both H and I work full time hours. Then he teaches a night class one night a week and I take a night class one night a week. Plus H will be super busy at work now. My calendar is year round for my students so I at least don't have to deal with back to schoolness.
That's crazy. The transition thing is so working parent-unfriendly. DD just dives right into full day Kindergarten in on the Tuesday after labor day. It'll be quite a transition, but she'll get through it. Hopefully!
Our school supplies are the ones we just buy and then throw them in the box with all the other kids' supplies so at least we don't need to label them. Thank God for that. But I'm just a tiny little bit sad that we can't pick out her own stuff because I remember how awesome that was, finding just the right folder at Target, and the coolest pencils. I guess that'll have to wait a couple of years.
My only annoyance is that we have very little info on anything (e.g. the orientation from hell where I brought DS because I had no idea what would be involved LOL), so I don't really know what the hell is going on. I guess we just show up for the first day of school and hope she has a teacher.
papie You get to go with her for 90 minutes the first day? I'm so jealous, I'm expected to just put my four year old on a bus. And then not see her for 8 hours. Like that's a thing that people do. As if!
papie You get to go with her for 90 minutes the first day? I'm so jealous, I'm expected to just put my four year old on a bus. And then not see her for 8 hours. Like that's a thing that people do. As if!
Yes, that is the one thing I'm very happy about. Although I guess I would prefer to then leave her there for a couple of hours rather than bringing her back home with me, lol.
I don't think we are eligible for the bus, we didn't get any info and we live pretty close to the school. I will likely be dropping her off every day as it is just down the street from Sophia's daycare anyway.
I get highly annoyed that I have to pay a registration fee and fill out paperwork again every year. DD is in the same daycare. She is staying in the same daycare. Why a freaking registration fee every year? I am not filling out paperwork again. She never left.
For our school. Registration and part of the enrollment can be done online. I registered back in March and now they are saying to get a head start on enrollment (which starts Wednesday) we can log onto our accounts to get the paperwork.
I can't find my user name or password. I think I accidentally deleted the original email.
The site you log into has a link for "Forgot Your Password."
I've filled that out.
I got a response with a username and password.
I tried it.
It doesn't work.
I called a number asking for someone to call me back to walk me through this.
No one called me back.
This is stressing me out! Granted I can still enroll her with out going on line, I would still like to get into my account! grrr.
Oh and Walmart carries 10 packs of Washable markers! Though they are Classic BRIGHT colors, not classic. I bought 2 packs, along with 2 packs of 8 washable and 2-10 packs of regular. Someone will use them. lol
papie You get to go with her for 90 minutes the first day? I'm so jealous, I'm expected to just put my four year old on a bus. And then not see her for 8 hours. Like that's a thing that people do. As if!
Yes, that is the one thing I'm very happy about. Although I guess I would prefer to then leave her there for a couple of hours rather than bringing her back home with me, lol.
I don't think we are eligible for the bus, we didn't get any info and we live pretty close to the school. I will likely be dropping her off every day as it is just down the street from Sophia's daycare anyway.
I still might drive her the first day, I'm not sure. If she takes the bus I'm making the neighbour girl takes pictures of DD with her ipod on the bus, going to her classroom, at recess, at lunch. I'm not ready to let go
I get highly annoyed that I have to pay a registration fee and fill out paperwork again every year. DD is in the same daycare. She is staying in the same daycare. Why a freaking registration fee every year? I am not filling out paperwork again. She never left.
At the bean's school, the registration fee pays for supplies that they have to replenish every year. And the paperwork is redone because a lot of families have changes from one year to the next.
We always had to have indoor/outdoor shoes too, what a pain in the ass for parents and kids because I always hated changing my shoes! But I can understand why they need them, but still. I would just get a cheap pair of shoes for indoor shoes.
this isn't necessarily an annoyance (i'm not annoyed, i'm breezy) but i feel like here in "small-govn't-dont-tell-me-how-to-raise-my-kid land" the fall out is going to be awesome. we got a note home saying that the 2nd grade has a very long morning before lunch and that they would benefit from a morning snack even though 2nd grade doesn't usually do snack. then it says this:
"i had the students taste test today. they enjoyed the belvita breakfast biscuits. they come in four or five flavors and are all good. they have 19 grams of whole grain per serving. they aren't messy and match our food policy criteria. the belvita cracker comes four to a pack with five packs per box. i'm going to allow your child 1 cracker per morning, which would last them 20 days. his/her box will be kept in the cubby. we need to have something that is quick, non-messy, beneficial and won't cause a major disruption. of course, your child may have a water bottle with clear liquid in it only."
*pops a belvita breakfast biscuit (just one, of course) and settles in for an update*
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
this isn't necessarily an annoyance (i'm not annoyed, i'm breezy) but i feel like here in "small-govn't-dont-tell-me-how-to-raise-my-kid land" the fall out is going to be awesome. we got a note home saying that the 2nd grade has a very long morning before lunch and that they would benefit from a morning snack even though 2nd grade doesn't usually do snack. then it says this:
"i had the students taste test today. they enjoyed the belvita breakfast biscuits. they come in four or five flavors and are all good. they have 19 grams of whole grain per serving. they aren't messy and match our food policy criteria. the belvita cracker comes four to a pack with five packs per box. i'm going to allow your child 1 cracker per morning, which would last them 20 days. his/her box will be kept in the cubby. we need to have something that is quick, non-messy, beneficial and won't cause a major disruption. of course, your child may have a water bottle with clear liquid in it only."
DD started school today, they have to wear uniforms. I ordered 4 full uniforms and 3 PE uniforms. I have only 1 full uniform and 2 PE. She has to wear the full uniform everyday. I'm pissed because she is THREE. Potty accidents are going to happen and she won't have the correct clothes to change into. They also cannot tell me when the other 3 uniforms will be in. This is the only thing I have to be annoyed about.