yeah man, it’s a HIGH school, not grade school.
When I went to Catholic school, I would rather have starved than telephone my parents (which would, in itself, have been a tremendous hassle, necessitating, as it would have, my going to intimidating Sister DeSalle and asking her to use the one phone at the school - which request she would have most certainly denying, right before whacking the backs of my hands with a steel ruler and sending me back to class).
Regards,
As a student, I never knew of one parent that ever came to high school except for death or injury in the family.
We would have been mortified to have a parent bring our lunch or homework to school.
Things much have really changed.
(yes, "pajama boys" are now considered a race)
Just wait until a parent is bringing medication and the child collapses. Asthma, diabetes, or behavioral meds that keep the teachers safe like ritalin meleril or novane that is designed to control hyperactivity and the possible physical outbursts attached to the illness. This little slippery slope may get someone hurt, student or teacher.
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Wow, that is really great. As this goes viral I bet the school sees are marked increase in applications to attend.
The parents raising poor little snowflakes can go elsewhere.
As an aside, I hope the school has JROTC.
This is not a bad thing.
I am hopeless in the mornings so I had clamped to the back of my door a check list with various necessities for the day written on it. I would always go through it every single morning because any morning I didn't I was sure to have forgotten something.
As I got older I started packing my bag the night before so it became a more grab and go. But I left the list up, to force myself to stop and think.
a glimmer of hope...
My only beef about this is in using the term “problem-solve” instead of something like “he’ll learn to deal with the problem”.
The ghost of father tribou?
Amen.
A breath of fresh air....
It is ashame this rule is even needed. I can assure you that no matter what I forgot to take to school, anytime past 1st grade, my parents would never have considered bringing it to the school.
This is a Catholic school that many homeschoolers could embrace. They appear not to be raising delicate snowflakes in this school.
By high school, if I called my mother for any of these things (and by then she didn’t pay attention as to whether I had them), she would have laughed at me and hung up the phone. I had allowance and babysitting money to buy lunch if I forgot bringing food from home. My homework was my responsibility. Not done and not turned in on time meant not going to college. Same for books and equipment.
And good friends always have each others backs. I still have my high school calculator that has a smiley sticker a friend put on it after I loaned it to her because she forgot hers. We were so bad about swapping to survive at my school, a teacher did a surprise book check one day and you got an extra point if your name was the one in it.
Bkmrk
Public schools are similar to the USPS; they have to take your package no matter how poorly wrapped. Private (and to a lesser extent Charter) schools can (and do) require well packaged items, in the same way as UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.
I have a good friend who teaches 4th & 5th grades in M.P.S. Many are very poorly wrapped. He is virtually powerless to effectively deal with disruptive students.
Good for them.