I am the unhappy camper. Ever have one of those things where you knew you shouldn't have but did anyways?
A couple of weeks ago an invitation arrived in the mail to my daughter. It was a reunion with her class from last year. The class where all of her classmates alternately teased and snubbed her. She wasn't keen on going and neither was I, however I did feel it would have been useful for the staff to be able to talk to her. The staff wanted to speak to last years class as it was the first to graduate so as to see how they were doing with regards to preparing for middle school. daughter is, to the best of my knowledge, the only one who went to a private school. Might be useful to get input, I thought.
So I brought her with hopes she'd be able to see some of her teachers. Well they had them all serving pizza to the kids. All the kids ignored her, I don't think one was happy to see her. After about an hour, I said we need to leave, and actually we did. daughter's school had am education fair which I wished to attend. So we left early and went there, and I actually enjoyed looking at what they had had the kids doing.
I still believe daughter has useful information to provide, but in the future it will not be done in the same setting. Her brothers still attend the school, so we can bring her along for some of the meetings for them.
I am still kicking myself for bringing her, and still in a grumpy mood.
A couple of weeks ago an invitation arrived in the mail to my daughter. It was a reunion with her class from last year. The class where all of her classmates alternately teased and snubbed her. She wasn't keen on going and neither was I, however I did feel it would have been useful for the staff to be able to talk to her. The staff wanted to speak to last years class as it was the first to graduate so as to see how they were doing with regards to preparing for middle school. daughter is, to the best of my knowledge, the only one who went to a private school. Might be useful to get input, I thought.
So I brought her with hopes she'd be able to see some of her teachers. Well they had them all serving pizza to the kids. All the kids ignored her, I don't think one was happy to see her. After about an hour, I said we need to leave, and actually we did. daughter's school had am education fair which I wished to attend. So we left early and went there, and I actually enjoyed looking at what they had had the kids doing.
I still believe daughter has useful information to provide, but in the future it will not be done in the same setting. Her brothers still attend the school, so we can bring her along for some of the meetings for them.
I am still kicking myself for bringing her, and still in a grumpy mood.