My Single Mom Life

Last week you sent us home a letter detailing what time orientations started, fees for lockers, consumables, schedule pick-ups etc.
Last night, all parents in the county, received an automated phone call from the school phone server.
In this call, the principal said the orientation schedule has been changed, from 3:30pm on Thursday for the freshman, to 3:00pm for freshman.

At 5 minutes to 3, there were over 100 parents with their students present, waiting in line to pick up schedules.
You then had some teacher or guidance counselor, tell us we were all a half an hour early, and that we had to go back outside, form a new line, and wait for 30 more minutes.
We all go back outside, form a new line, and wait in the heat.

Then you labeled the lines for schedule pick up like this;
G-L on the left, A-C in the middle, and D-F on the right, and M-Z in a completely different room.
Oh, and the signs for these lines, were at waist level and only at the front of the lines, so new people entering the cafeteria, had no clue where to go.

Then after we managed to get through the schedule pick-up lines, we were shuffled into another part of the cafeteria, to pay for lockers, consumables, and senior parking.
Then we we routed to the other side of the cafeteria, to buy t-shirts we don't want, yet you wouldn't let us leave.
Then you told me I had to stay for the lecture in the auditorium.
No, no I don't.
See, I cannot sit in those chairs because they are hard plastic.
I cannot stand for an hour long lecture either.
Not to mention, the smell in the auditorium.
What is that, cheese? Fungus? Jockstrap sweat?
Whatever it is, it's nasty, and perhaps you should have that entire auditorium professionally cleaned before you invite parents to sit down in it.

It was complete chaos in there. There were students all over the place throwing balls, running everywhere, teachers with no clue what the hell was going on, and telling parents to go this way, when they actually should have gone the other way.

RHS, I hate your orientations every year.
I hate how disorganized everything is. I hate how you think all of us want to buy your t-shirts and other crap.
Not all your students give a rats ass about school pride. They don't want a t-shirt or a yearbook. They want an education, and it's practically impossible to pick up student schedules, and if they are wrong, it is impossible to get them corrected.
Please do not let the crap that happened today, be any indicator of how the school year is going to go.

Sincerely,
Kat Cooper