The Wheels on the bus go round and round

This school year 4 out 5 of my children are in public school. I have 2 in Elementary, 1 in Jr. High and 1 in High school. Although I did not cry when The Wild Man started Kindergarten this year, I did however not look forward to it. Each year I find school more and more annoying.

That's right, I said it. I said I find school annoying. I am pretty sure I was not up for parent of the year award anyways, so I might as well get this of my chest.

The amount of emails, notes, printouts, flyers, memos, smoke signals, morse code, text (yes TEXT) - AUTOMATED PHONE CALLS FROM THE DISTRICT, that I get with 4 kids in 3 different schools is enough to make me want to DRINK or possibly find a reputable source for marijuana.

I am going to go ahead and insert that I appreciate what our teachers do and totally think they should be paid more. Got that out of the way...

Also earlier in the school year, I totally forgot about the first parent teacher confernece for The Wild Man and The Diva. I missed it - Luckily Big Daddy was close and made it to both of them. I told him to tell them I was sick or something just to please not tell them that I missed it because I was at the AT&T store getting the new iphone. It was then I knew that this school year was going to kick my ass.

The amount of notes that I get sent home from Wild Man's teacher is insane. I am serious to say that when the child steps out of the straight line walking to the lunch room, I get a note about it. I once got a note from his music teacher that he was singing the songs in a SILLY VOICE. No shit people, A SILLY VOICE in music class while singing. A KINDERGARTEN class - a 6 year old boy. REALLY? I politley wrote back that I was sure he was just trying to channel Eminem or possibly Little Wayne because that is pretty much all we listen to. I did not get a response back and I have not received another note from her.

Wild Man has a binder that comes home every day and in that binder is chart that his teach er either puts a smiley face or a sad face depending on the days events. Needless to say, we see alot of sad faces. 95% of the time it is over the smallest thing. Alot of the times it is over not finishing his school work. Which I do talk to him about but good lord, he is in Kindergarten, didn't we just color and go to recess and wipe boogers on each other. We didn't have homework in kindergarten.
I got a call a couple weeks back about Wild Man not wanting to take some test they were giving to track his progress. basically he just did not want to test that day. He got whiny and irritated and so I get a phone call. The first question out of his teachers mouth was " I was wondering if maybe there something going on at home that is stressing him out?" Silence on both ends of the phone then I responded with No, I am thinking he just doesn't want to take the test.  Teacher: Well Mrs. Campbell I am not sure what to do about him.
Me: silence then How about you try again tomorrow. Teacher: Well we have tried 3 times today.
Me: and you are asking me why he is stressed?
There was a bit more conversation, it all ended well and we both agreed to test try again another day. I spoke with Wild Man that evening and he basically just was not in the mood. I told him that he has do his best and blah, blah, blah all that parenting crap you lay out for them. he made it through the testing and nothing more was said about it.

Let me tell you another gripe I have - the beginning of the year school supply list. I feel like we are stocking the damn cafeteria and cleaning closet rather than our kids desk. Clorox wipes?? Really, I at times do not buy those for my house because they are a bit overpriced. 6 boxes of Kleenexes? make sure you don't buy anything cute for your kids because when you take all those supplies in, they all get dumped into public bins and who knows if your kid is gonna get what you bought them. I am also pretty sure I went through my entire school career without needing post it notes. Just saying...

So far Junior High and High school are my favorite years. I am sure having great teenagers enables me to say that. Starting in about 7th grade I have found that the teachers really do not want to communicate with you and if they never have to, they like you that much more.

So judge if you want but school is totally bumming me out. Don't respond with "maybe you should homeschool". I have several friends who homeschool and I am have no idea how they do it. I would have gouged my own eyes out on the 2nd day.

Peace out