I got in a big girly strop about this today. Ten years ago I would have laughed at someone's world crumbling over a sodding recorder club.
I found a note in the depths of DS2's book bag on the last day of term offering places in a recorder club, 'first come first served.'
The note had gone in the day before and said that applications for a place had to be in by the 11th April, which was during the Easter holidays??? I posted the form into the school letterbox the day after finding it, confident that it would be found in time (some of our admin staff work during the holidays). I returned to school and was told that a) The school hadn't received the form ???? b) The club was full and DS2 was sixth on the waiting list. ie. no place for DS2.
All of the places had been taken on the same afternoon that the letters went out. Parents had looked in the bags at pickup time, read the note and gone straight round to sign their children up.
Am I just p'd off about this because I'm a slack mummy who didn't dig around in the bag beyond the usual homework? Or am I right to be p'd off that the lucky few had got in there first before the ink was dry on the letters.
There were 12 places for a possible 60 children in DS2's year, BTW.
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bubble99 · 20/04/2006 20:02
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