Was anyone else aggrevated by the fact Polenta's orientation was only until 6pm? When we got there they had locked the doors. I guess they thought parents have teachers hours and could get from their job in Raleigh to the school before 6. What makes me even madder is the fact that the letter sent to us announcing who the teacher was did not include the room number, or the time for the orientation. Then I sent school supplies to the class for my child. My child comes home and says the teacher took up all the supplies then when they need them she just hands them out to whoever. So the supplies I sent for my child some one else ends up using. That is how I get my child excited about school, he gets to pick out all his cool supplies. Only now someone else uses them. Last complaint about them. Why is it that school does not dismiss until 3:15 now. Any one else getting tired of them?
the man doing car pool i did not pull out of the parking lot until almost 4:00 the man calling the names out was slow. then they got the sherriff's dept out there to direct traffic because it was backed up
Yeah she mentioned who ever was in charge of the car pool lane was very disorganized. One more reason I'm glad I don't have kids :lol:
They usually do that for younger grades with things like hand sanitizer, kleenex, extra paper, crayons, ziploc bags, etc. Any notebooks or folders that your child picked out special, he probably got to keep.
My friend in Charlotte said that last year her 2nd grade son had to watch other children get his Spiderman notebooks, that he picked out, while he got stuck with plain ones. The teacher took eveyone's supplies and then randomly distributed them to the class. :roll: That would have made me hotter than fire. If I want to pay $2+ for special notebooks that my child picked out, then my child had better get to use them... not the 2/$1 ones that someone else bought! :evil: (Not that there is anything wrong with 2/$1 notebooks, its the principle of it.) :wink:
I think it teaches us that the school system needs to find the extra money in their budget to buy their own damn kleenex.
Well if it was me with kids that had to share all their supplies that i had purchased, i would keep the extras at home till they needed them if at all possible or be sure to put their name on everything.
That's why I put my daughter's name in nice perm. marker on all her stuff I buy. :wink: (except the shared items like Kleenex, hand sanitizer, etc.)
This **** pisses me off to no end. I buy nice stuff, and then he gets some kid's dollar tree stuff. Last year, they asked for two extra packs of paper to be kept at school fror when he ran out. I bought Mead paper - I thought it would be kept in his cubby. March came and he ran out of paper and asked me to buy some. I said "Wha? What about the two packs I sent to school?". "Oh, the teacher took those up at the beginning of school and passed them out as kids needed them. They are all gone now!" GRRRR!! :evil: You bet, I had to go and buy paper when it was not on sale and no coupons were in sales ads!
I don't have a problem with the share items. But what upset me was the nice scissors,notebook paper, pencils, glue, and special notebooks. I put his name on everything but he said they still go all in one pile and she distributes as she sees fit. The school supply list did not say bring enough for everyone. It says to purchase for your child. Seems like with all the fund raisers they aggrevate you about they could fund some of this with. I am tired of paying my taxes, buying lottery tickets, contributing to fund raisers at school only to have my child's stuff given to someone else!!!!
I'm glad that I have read these posts......thought I was the only one aggravated about the carpool line at Polenta. I guess that I am not!! I gave them the benefit of the doubt the first couple days, but it seems like it is not getting any better as the week has gone on. I am wondering too....why are they starting 10 minutes later with carpool dismissal.....they are not starting ten minutes earlier in the morning! I have seen the traffic backed up almost to Barber Mill Rd. the first couple of days in the afternoon.....that is just crazy! In my opinion, they really need a red light on Cleveland Rd. at Josephine Rd. before someone has a bad accident from trying to get out of the school after the carpool line. I have seen several instances where someone came close to getting hit! Also, I didn't know about the "sharing" of supplies until reading this. I had to ask my 2nd grader if this went on in his class, and he said yes. I used a sharpie marker to put his name on EVERYTHING and he said it was all collected for what was called "community property" anyways. I have never seen anything like that before. What grade are your kids in where this so called "community collection" as gone on?
See how early they try to indoctrinate our children? Socialism in the 2nd Grade??? I think what really annoyed me is it is not communicated! And I did go to the trouble to write his name on supplies. Whatever happened to the Silent Partners program for needy kids? I have volunteered for this when it was offered, I am happy to donate. But don't TAKE from me what I would have gladly given!!
Thanks to all of you for posting, My son starts K @ Polenta next week. I did buy him some cool school supplies, but now I think I'll go back out and repurchase some plain ones, and keep the cool ones home for when we do crafts, etc.
Before you so easily stab and jab at Polenta or any other school, why not try and talk with the teacher and ask him or her why these things happen, how the supplies are distributed, etc. Did you ever consider that there might possibly be children attending school whose families are unable to pay for the supply items? Any guess as to how much my wife and her colleagues pay OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS for what you would call rudimentary supplies..tissues, paper, etc? And, if you and every other parent choose to drive your child to and from school, does it not seem likely that there will be a lot of traffic there. Do the math..increased volume of cars in a finite space = traffic jam and slow movement. And before you slam the car pool coordinators, remember that they are trying to SAFELY perform the car pool duty. Heaven forbid any child get left, lost, or hurt at the car pool line, then you'd be up in arms over it. We were at school nightly until they made us leave, trying to set up classrooms, cubbies, bulletin boards. If you were unable to make it to the school before 6, could you not have called during the day, and asked to speak with your child's teacher. Get involved with the school. I know they'd welcome your well-intended efforts.
I doubt any of that money has been distributed to the schools yet, and when they finally do, it will only be about 1/3 of what they take in. If you want to play the lottery for the fun of it, that's fine, but don't think you're helping the schools much by playing. If your main goal is to help the schools, don't buy the lottery ticket -- just spend the money on extra school supplies. I think teachers are allowed a tax deduction of $500 for school supplies that they purchase, and all the teachers I know spend far more than that over the course of the year. Why do the schools not get enough money to buy their own kleenex and hand sanitizer, anyway?
my point is don't send home a note requesting i provide certain items for my child and then turn around and give to someone else. AGAIN i do not have a problem supplying "community items" that were listed optional on the sheet. Under the schools supplies it did not say buy crayons, paper, scissors etc and by the way we will be giving to whomever we please. We live on a tight budget but we provide supplies. it is the principle of the matter my child expects to use the stuff he picked out. if the teacher needs more crayons for parents who could not buy their kid a box of 20 cent crayons why don't she send a note home requesting these items Finally it all boils down communication, you want me to communicate to the teacher. Well i am only taking the information from what she sends home. just tell me exactly what you want. don't send me home something without including important details. If it was community property i would have explained to my child we were purchasing for everyone to share in the class. He understands the box of tissues we sent aren't his. But don't take away HIS stuff and give it to someone who brought nothing. As far as the teachers are concerned I guarantee you make more than most of us sending our kids to your school. So don't whine to me. I put out a lot out of my pocket with all the fund raisers. Oh yeah the past two years for teacher appreciating week I made sure I supplied items to show how much you were appreciated. And we paid for it without whining about the money. The money I spent is not tax deductible.
