Fed up with dd's school (not in UK)

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Sorry a bit of a rant need to get it out of my system
Never liked the fact the use one door for everybody to get in and out, they never open the otherside. School starts at 8.30 doors supposed to open at 8.15 yesterday it was 8.22, the day before 8.23 basically three hundred students plus and at least a hundred parents all trying to get in the school at the same time.

Parents are expected to come in to the school with the children at least for the first three years, I feel like its a bun fight in the morning. My ds 2 has been knocked over, nearly hit in the head with a football pushed over by bigger kids and the parents don't care (it is partly a culttural thing).

We get weekly news letters and were told the children needed a wooden cross of a certain size to decorate for Palm Sunday, never given a date this was needed, also had to provide decorations, seeing as it was for this week I assumed we had until at least Monday to provide them.

DD tells me on Friday she has been given wood, so I don't bother but give her decorations, came home today with a crappy cross, not one single one if the decorations I gave her on it, apparently they have been used to decorate the class room.

I am really happy with how she is doing in school she doing very well and the top of her class in State tests, considering she is learning in her third language is fantastic, and she is being really pushed to learn and I love how she is being educated and one of her teachers, the other one only started this week.

I am not sure if another school would be any better, she changed schools last year because we moved, her last school was not so bad in the morning

So you really like the school, but it's a bit chaotic in the morning and there was once instance of crossed wires over a craft activity?

Your penultimate paragraph sounded so upbeat I would concentrate on the positive aspects of your DCs' school.

Teach your DS2 to sharpen those elbows and carve his way through the melee.

I'm sure the classroom looked better with your donations so on the bright side, a nicer environment for DD in which to work.

It is handy to have MN on which to vent. Have you looked on the Living Overseas section for any MNers in your region?

Aibu to be annoyed, sorry maybe I should have put in chat
I was excited my dd was doing this craft event, it was something the whole school was doing and also a very cultural thing, something all catholic children do I believe and they take them to church on Sunday as part of Palm Sunday, her cross looked like her parents didn't give a shit about what she did at school.

I could post more as to what pisses me off, my Uncle was visiting from Australia last month he was astounded by how awful it was getting into school in the morning andhiw crowded it was, there is no communiy spirit, to the point if a child is badly hurt I doubt another parent would even stop to help out. Certainly when boys were playing football and kicking a ball at my ds head I had no help from the fifty or so other parents standing around me.

I did end up talking to a teacher about it but nothing changed, I do wonder if it will take a serious injury for something to change. My dd has to go home for lunch so I have to do drop her off twice a day, I have realised that the severe distress I have been disgnosed with is due a lot to dropping my dd at school. My DS also goes to nursery in the same building, he loves it and it is so good for him

Learn to speak out to the older kids. The other parents probably thought you were OK with what was happening. I used to not speak to the older kids and just usher my small children away from things, but learned to stop and shout "hey, be more careful, small children here" things like that, they soon stop.