Day 1081: Final parent meeting

Wow.  So disappointed.  We expected 70 to enroll, but only a grand total of fifty-one Fredonia families attended the parent meetings.  At 140, it's the largest class Fredonia has had in many years, so we thought far more would join.  At most we'll have two from Silver Creek and four from Brocton.    So much work for so few participants at those two schools.

The problem with the low numbers is that they impact the number of student leaders and adults who participate, too.  We don't want to deny any high school students.  The leadership training component is just too important to shortchange.

When we stopped in to collect the student leader applications, there were only three!  The deadline is Friday, so there's time, but why have they left it for the last minute?

A parent contacted us and asked to be excused from the parent meeting because she is going through a divorce.  She couldn't come to the meeting because she works as a teacher during the day and an extra job in the evening.   I wrote back and told her I would meet her on a day of her choice at her classroom since she couldn't come.  I went to see her today, did the orientation.  As I was packing up, I said we'd go home and take a walk.  Then she says she wouldn't be walking tonight because she was going to shop for Christmas presents with her mother.  I don't think she realized she had lied to me.   So, I gave up an extra 45 minutes of my time to provide personal service and she could have come to the meeting after all.

Maybe, I'm too old for this.  Or, it's time for bed.

Missing our gorgeous June iris!