In article ,
Banty wrote:

In article , Bev Brandt
says...

Anyway...enough ranting. School is starting right after Labor Day for
me and my oldest has "issues." "Issues" that the counselor has
suggested could be helped if I "volunteered regularly." Thus my rant
proclivity.

- Bev


Ah, yes - the breezy, cheerily offered suggestions to "volunteer regularly",
the
school secretary who called HOME with all questions or problems then
complained
about my inaccessibility until I took to circling my WORK number twice in red
ink and pointing two red arrows to it on the information forms, the "we'd
like
your son to show his science fair project at class this morning, but please
come
by at 3:15 dismissal to pick it up" - I know the elementary educational
establishments utter denseness about working mothers well.

Banty


It gets worse in some ways: there have been several times when the
school needed to reach me, tried me at home and at a work number -- then
left my kid in the nurses office for the rest of the day when they
couldn't reach me, instead of calling their Dad! (I was told that they
hate to bother men at work; this was less than 10 years ago, and I was,
frankly, too stunned to even respond.)

meh
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Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care