Right, i have had a totally WASTED afternoon. Not only that so has DP who is already stressed to the eyeballs.
So bloody annoyed - went to Parents meeting for when she starts pre-school, supposedly in September. Went to meeting, DP took afternoon off work (self employed and running late anyway) because the invitation implied that it would be informative, show us around the school etc. Had to reserve one or two places.
We gets there, sits down - lots of disgruntled toddlers (well what else were we supposed to do with them). No arrangements made to keep them occupied while the adults listened to what was said (i enquired previously whether it was OK to bring children so assumed SOMETHING was in place). So as a consequence could not hear a word that was said due to whinging tots (who could blame them!), my own included. We were told to hand around forms to say what sessions we would prefer, a list of things they must take to school and an appointment list of when we could attend an individual meeting before the start of term, when we would be given a start date. So i asked, will they not be starting in Septemeber then -"oh no, we are doing staggared starts, we are HOPING to get them all started by xmas" . That was it, meeting over. We asked to be shown around - not possible due to security reasons could they not have arranged body guards or something .
This means DP has had to put his job even further behind (therefore getting paid!!) and completely wasted an afternoon. The meeting was a shambles, no one knew what was going on. No introductory speil about "this is what we want to acheive at our pre-school" that we were expecting.
Am i being unreasonable to expect not to have my time wasted just because this is a state pre-school and not a day nursery so they are assuming then i am a SAHM who just has time to waste like this?? [incandescant with rage emoticon - quite honeslty a red face doesn't cut it].
Was very impressed with what i saw when i went to the open day LAST YEAR, was excited and wanted to show DP, after all he might like to see where DD is going to be looked after - We don't even get to pop our head around the door. I didnt put her name down for anywhere else and i'm begining to wonder if i have done the righ thing [worried].