This is ridiculous!!!
I’m so ticked off right now I hardly know how to control myself!
We hardly made it through the first day of school and already it is more ridiculous than last year! (And I thought that last year was the stupidest thing I ever encountered)
The bus driver seems totally incompetent behind the wheel. In the morning she had to ask for directions to find the school. In the afternoon she showed up at the school so late that both of my kids came home 30 minutes too late. Our youngest DD didn’t get home until a full hour after school let out. The school is 4 miles away from home on a straight road. (Both kids ride the same bus. One is in elem. school the other in middle) She was rude to the children on the bus and missed 2 stops on the way home and stopped where there was no bus stop to begin with. I will talk to the bus office tomorrow if this happens again. I will give her the benefit of doubt for now. She is new but apparently very badly trained.
When the kids finally came home they where full of new rules and regulations they where instructed on while at school. They come up with more and more rules each year.
The one that really po’s me is that the middle school has regulated bathroom breaks in a way that it totally goes against nature, body function and sanitary issues and their own advisories. DD is in 7th grade now. Today they found out that they are only allowed 2 bathroom brakes a week. Otherwise they need to wait until the scheduled break before and after lunch at 1pm. This means that they are not allowed to use the bathroom for 5 hours! They leave the house at 8am and don’t get back until 4pm. Besides the harmful effect it has on the body when normal body functions are being repressed it is totally unsanitary for a young girl that just starts her period. Now if the children use up their 2 passes a week and have to go they get “soared” (SOAR points is the disciplinary system they use on the children. They start of with 100 points and if the screw up (i. e. having to go to the bathroom) they get points taken away from them 5 at a time. Anyone who goes below 80 is prohibited to join in any school functions and the like. DD has never been in that boat but still I so don’t agree with the newest rule!
How can they say the parents need to make sure that the children eat a full breakfast (they never miss a beat to send this info to us in writing) but not allow them to use the bathroom when they need to?!
I don’t even want to go into all the other ridiculous rules they have. I could write a book about it (They beat me to the punch there. They wrote a book about it and a thick one at that)
This school district prides it self with being the best in the area. If that is true I really don’t want to see the worst. They still have corporal punishment for crying out loud! And they did away with grades below a C. Anything below 70% is a failed grade. I better stop now before I lose my dinner over this.
How would you handle the bathroom issue? I really need some help here before I go an a rampage…
Cinnamon
Foot note: We are moving in January and only have to tough it out till December 16. But if I don't find a way to deal with this it will be a very long 5 months.
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I’m so ticked off right now I hardly know how to control myself!
We hardly made it through the first day of school and already it is more ridiculous than last year! (And I thought that last year was the stupidest thing I ever encountered)
The bus driver seems totally incompetent behind the wheel. In the morning she had to ask for directions to find the school. In the afternoon she showed up at the school so late that both of my kids came home 30 minutes too late. Our youngest DD didn’t get home until a full hour after school let out. The school is 4 miles away from home on a straight road. (Both kids ride the same bus. One is in elem. school the other in middle) She was rude to the children on the bus and missed 2 stops on the way home and stopped where there was no bus stop to begin with. I will talk to the bus office tomorrow if this happens again. I will give her the benefit of doubt for now. She is new but apparently very badly trained.
When the kids finally came home they where full of new rules and regulations they where instructed on while at school. They come up with more and more rules each year.
The one that really po’s me is that the middle school has regulated bathroom breaks in a way that it totally goes against nature, body function and sanitary issues and their own advisories. DD is in 7th grade now. Today they found out that they are only allowed 2 bathroom brakes a week. Otherwise they need to wait until the scheduled break before and after lunch at 1pm. This means that they are not allowed to use the bathroom for 5 hours! They leave the house at 8am and don’t get back until 4pm. Besides the harmful effect it has on the body when normal body functions are being repressed it is totally unsanitary for a young girl that just starts her period. Now if the children use up their 2 passes a week and have to go they get “soared” (SOAR points is the disciplinary system they use on the children. They start of with 100 points and if the screw up (i. e. having to go to the bathroom) they get points taken away from them 5 at a time. Anyone who goes below 80 is prohibited to join in any school functions and the like. DD has never been in that boat but still I so don’t agree with the newest rule!
How can they say the parents need to make sure that the children eat a full breakfast (they never miss a beat to send this info to us in writing
) but not allow them to use the bathroom when they need to?!I don’t even want to go into all the other ridiculous rules they have. I could write a book about it (They beat me to the punch there. They wrote a book about it and a thick one at that
)This school district prides it self with being the best in the area. If that is true I really don’t want to see the worst. They still have corporal punishment for crying out loud! And they did away with grades below a C. Anything below 70% is a failed grade. I better stop now before I lose my dinner over this.
How would you handle the bathroom issue? I really need some help here before I go an a rampage…
Cinnamon
Foot note: We are moving in January and only have to tough it out till December 16. But if I don't find a way to deal with this it will be a very long 5 months.
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: of course the teacher was non to pleases with this and he called his dad in and his dad told the teacher than what he done was totally acceptable and if they did any thing to punish my dad they would answer to him. 
needless to say they never gave my dad any trouble over potty breaks after that. Acording to my dad they would even go so far as to ask him if he needed to go 
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