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[ricevermicelli]

It is easier to use the school website to find the number of urinals in my child's school building than it is to find working contact information for the front office.

If you'd like to use this as an opportunity to celebrate your decision to homeschool, please do it elsewhere. I can't take it today.

Comments

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

our daughter's school's website is oddly uninformative in that way also. it's frustrating.

[naomikritzer]

That sort of thing makes me stabby and is absolutely par for the course at all Minneapolis Public Schools, too. (My kids are now in a charter school, which is significantly better in that regard. The thing about communication is that if you make it a priority, institutionally, if you actually believe that the parents are your partners and you need to communicate with them, the teachers and staff all make the effort. If institutionally you don't give a shit about communication? it doesn't happen unless the parents act like crazed stalkers, which is what I honest to god felt like one summer when I was trying to find out when the open house was going to be held.)

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. That sounds extremely frustrating.

Newt

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

This would be like the way that camp sends an email every week which includes "call Denise if there will be any changes to your child's pickup schedule", and not one of the emails, nor the camp web site, includes a phone number for Denise?

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

More like "Hey, we have a morning program!" with NO INFORMATION about signing up. And I could really use the morning program. Because, somehow, the closest school bus stop is half a mile from our house. I have called the requisite authority about this. I wish I expected results.

[blk]

Public schools can be ridiculously unhelpful. I am incredibly fortunate that our local high school is incredibly close by, so I can stop by IN PERSON to take care of a great deal of sorting things out. For everything I couldn't do that for, I must have spent hours just trying to get the right person on the phone.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

Our school's website contains all sorts of information. This does not, however, include the times that school opens and closes, either on a daily basis or on early release days. I can only assume that this is somehow something we are expected to intuit by virtue of living in the same city.

[drwex]

Sympathies. I think this is a universal problem of schools with low/no budgets for Web sites ending up with at best half-assed jobs.

[thenotoriousphd.livejournal.com]

No, I get it. Sarah's school's website has no fewer than four different links claiming to contain the current month's school lunch menu, and they're all wrong. In different ways.

[graceo.livejournal.com]

I have a list of AWESOME parent org projects that will improve communication with families and reduce administrative costs for the district.

They involve basic HTML programming and voicemail.

[robbbbbb.livejournal.com]

I went through about three different levels of snarky comments before I just decided that what you really wanted to hear was, "Wow, that sucks."

Wow, that really sucks.

(Snarky comments available on request.)