When we walked around the neighborhood elementary, the principal (after finding out that C. and I both work from home) went into her spiel about how of course they'd be seeing us in the classroom all the time.
Well no, I thought, the whole point of sending them to school is that I won't have to be standing over them all the time, isn't it?
...I don't know, I have a hard time thinking that it's reasonable to expect anyone to join a PTA, never mind people who have even bigger cultural hurdles than I do, because all the school-parents-group people I've ever met have been snooty and expected me to be able to give a lot of time to their pet projects ("You can sell wrapping paper!" "Okay, what's our margin?" "Two percent!" "What if I write you a check for $5 and spend the next month on something else?" "Oh, but we're all selling wrapping paper!" "You have fun with that, then.")
*shrug* Why we're homeschooling this year, reason number umpteen: my lifelong failure to cope with American school cultures.
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Date: 2009-03-05 04:29 pm (UTC)Well no, I thought, the whole point of sending them to school is that I won't have to be standing over them all the time, isn't it?
...I don't know, I have a hard time thinking that it's reasonable to expect anyone to join a PTA, never mind people who have even bigger cultural hurdles than I do, because all the school-parents-group people I've ever met have been snooty and expected me to be able to give a lot of time to their pet projects ("You can sell wrapping paper!" "Okay, what's our margin?" "Two percent!" "What if I write you a check for $5 and spend the next month on something else?" "Oh, but we're all selling wrapping paper!" "You have fun with that, then.")
*shrug* Why we're homeschooling this year, reason number umpteen: my lifelong failure to cope with American school cultures.