I would love opinions of my Dis friends. Sorry for the length.
Yesterday after school my DD11 had to work the concession stand at the middle school football game. This is something that is done by the student council representatives. The game was a makeup game, so it was very last minute. Anyway, she stayed after school, worked on homework, then opened and worked the concessions. The notice I received from the teacher in charge was that the game would end around 7:15, but if it was early, she would call. No problem!
So at 7:00 I pile her sister and brother into the car and off we go. As we are leaving the house, I open my cell phone and notice a voicemail. That's weird, as my phone was in the house with me and it had not rang. We live in the mountains, so on occasion that will happen. I check the messages and it is my DD11 letting me know the game was going to be done early and I should pick her up in 10 minutes. Too bad she called at 6:26. I was so upset. Why didn't she call the house, as she was told to.
About half way to the school, my cell phone rings and it is DD11, I tell her that I am on my way and that I had just gotten her message. When I get to the school I find my eleven year old child in the dark, alone.
Apparently, when she was told to call to let me know the game would be done early, she was told to borrow another child's phone as the school office was locked and she couldn't use that phone. Problem here is that the PRINCIPAL (who has the key) told her this. The only child who had a phone she could borrow had restrictions on her cell, and it could only be used to call Verizon numbers, so DD11 couldn't call our house. Since when do middle schools count on all children having cell phones!
When I got to the school and my child was outside in the dark, alone, there were adults in the building, but she had to be outside.
The band director had seen her on his way out and had let her use his phone to make the second call. Why DD11 was not allowed to sit inside the building boggles my mind.
As an aside, this school is out in the country between two suburbs. There is nothing else around except cow fields. And, my DD11 was SCARED.
I have emailed the principal (without pointing fingers directly at her) and asked for some explanation. My question to you all is am I being ridiculous in thinking that the school should have done a better job of making sure that DD11 could contact a parent? Also, what do you think about her being left outside alone?
Yesterday after school my DD11 had to work the concession stand at the middle school football game. This is something that is done by the student council representatives. The game was a makeup game, so it was very last minute. Anyway, she stayed after school, worked on homework, then opened and worked the concessions. The notice I received from the teacher in charge was that the game would end around 7:15, but if it was early, she would call. No problem!
So at 7:00 I pile her sister and brother into the car and off we go. As we are leaving the house, I open my cell phone and notice a voicemail. That's weird, as my phone was in the house with me and it had not rang. We live in the mountains, so on occasion that will happen. I check the messages and it is my DD11 letting me know the game was going to be done early and I should pick her up in 10 minutes. Too bad she called at 6:26. I was so upset. Why didn't she call the house, as she was told to.
About half way to the school, my cell phone rings and it is DD11, I tell her that I am on my way and that I had just gotten her message. When I get to the school I find my eleven year old child in the dark, alone.
Apparently, when she was told to call to let me know the game would be done early, she was told to borrow another child's phone as the school office was locked and she couldn't use that phone. Problem here is that the PRINCIPAL (who has the key) told her this. The only child who had a phone she could borrow had restrictions on her cell, and it could only be used to call Verizon numbers, so DD11 couldn't call our house. Since when do middle schools count on all children having cell phones!
When I got to the school and my child was outside in the dark, alone, there were adults in the building, but she had to be outside.
The band director had seen her on his way out and had let her use his phone to make the second call. Why DD11 was not allowed to sit inside the building boggles my mind.As an aside, this school is out in the country between two suburbs. There is nothing else around except cow fields. And, my DD11 was SCARED.
I have emailed the principal (without pointing fingers directly at her) and asked for some explanation. My question to you all is am I being ridiculous in thinking that the school should have done a better job of making sure that DD11 could contact a parent? Also, what do you think about her being left outside alone?
I mean, what were they thinking?
In my opinion, you have every right to be upset.
Maybe you would like to buy her one.
Yanno...it's these kind of responses that promote the thread "Judgemental DISers"..... That was NOT the question... It was her being upset with the school... Do *I* think she should have a cell phone? Yes. Did the OP ask us if *we* thought that? No. When a parent is obviously upset, people with some regard for human emotion don't point out what THEY could have done differently, they sympathise with the situation and answer the question at hand, not how THEY would have done it so much better....
