SCHOOL THREATENS TO CALL AUTHORITIES IF YOU'RE LATE PICKING UP YOUR KIDS.

author=LockeZ
My favorite part is actually before that. "If your child is dropped off before 7:40, there will be no adult supervision and we will call the authorities." Like, wait, back up a step. Who's going to call, exactly?

They really thought that through and these people are teaching our kid's, wow!

I'm at least glad the administration caught this and rescinded it.

Unfortunately, teaching, supervising, or even having kids is something that a lot of people are woefully unequipped for, so I'm not really surprised at some dumb school staff sending out something like that unsanctioned.

However, and I do mean however, on the other hand, when I was in school, there were a lot of people who neglected to pick up their kids or straight up forgot about them for hours at a time, and I don't mean an innocent "shit, forgot to stop by the school to pick up little Billy", I mean more along the likes of "fuck, I have kids?". A surprising amount of people don't give a shit about their kids.

author=Cor
I haven't heard a lot about Oregon, but so far, none of it has been good. Kinda makes you wonder why we tried as hard as hell in elementary school to beat the game. Maybe drowning trying to ford the river is a blessing in disguise? :

Portland is pretty rad, though. A lot of weirdos down there, though.

I'm actually okay with after school stuff like that because the amount of kids who have been left for HOURS after school ends... it's ridiculous. I've heard some tales from parents who would drive by the school later on and see kids playing and concerned teachers - who are supposed to be working and finishing up grading in order to get home to their own lives - watching over in case something happens to the kids.

Hell, one parent told me about this particular woman who tried to sue the school for her daughter breaking her leg after school because the 'teachers should have been supervising'. We're talking an hour after the school had closed. Apparently that mother was one of those parents who figured 'hey, free babysitters!!!' - of which there are more than a few.

Double hell, I've heard of kids dropped off at 6am in the morning because the parents have to go to work and are too cheap/don't have the money to hire a babysitter. So they drop of their kids before anyone arrives at the school, thinking they'll be safe. At 6am.

I don't blame the schools for this - they don't want to be responsible for before/after hours care to kids who should have been picked up. Teachers are paid to do a job between certain hours - they aren't obligated to watch your kids when they're off the clock. School staff have their own jobs to attend to. They don't have the time to watch your kids and none of them should be held accountable if you're a shitty parent who leaves your kids after school.

Granted, 10-20 minutes is fine, and maybe one-off 30 minutes, but longer than that and you deserve the police to be called. These are your fucking children for Gods' sake. Take care of them or arrange for someone to do so. Don't just leave them at a school thinking that the teachers and staff there - who are not getting paid overtime - will just 'take care of 'em'.

You deserve to have the children removed and be fined if you do that.

author=Liberty
I'm actually okay with after school stuff like that because the amount of kids who have been left for HOURS after school ends... it's ridiculous. I've heard some tales from parents who would drive by the school later on and see kids playing and concerned teachers - who are supposed to be working and finishing up grading in order to get home to their own lives - watching over in case something happens to the kids.

Hell, one parent told me about this particular woman who tried to sue the school for her daughter breaking her leg after school because the 'teachers should have been supervising'. We're talking an hour after the school had closed. Apparently that mother was one of those parents who figured 'hey, free babysitters!!!' - of which there are more than a few.

Double hell, I've heard of kids dropped off at 6am in the morning because the parents have to go to work and are too cheap/don't have the money to hire a babysitter. So they drop of their kids before anyone arrives at the school, thinking they'll be safe. At 6am.

I don't blame the schools for this - they don't want to be responsible for before/after hours care to kids who should have been picked up. Teachers are paid to do a job between certain hours - they aren't obligated to watch your kids when they're off the clock. School staff have their own jobs to attend to. They don't have the time to watch your kids and none of them should be held accountable if you're a shitty parent who leaves your kids after school.

Granted, 10-20 minutes is fine, and maybe one-off 30 minutes, but longer than that and you deserve the police to be called. These are your fucking children for Gods' sake. Take care of them or arrange for someone to do so. Don't just leave them at a school thinking that the teachers and staff there - who are not getting paid overtime - will just 'take care of 'em'.

You deserve to have the children removed and be fined if you do that.

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Yeah, this is to mitigate neglect.

But you see, the thing is, in my day, and I'm only 32, we had a thing called a School Bus. It stopped at you know, Bus Stops, and picked students up so that parents could get Get On With Their Lives, and not have to delay their schedule for the school. Lazy ppl.

In my day, while I'm not in favor of the whole traditional household deal, my parents both worked, but at the very least we didn't have a work culture that lied to ppl and told ppl there was a recession. There is an artificial recession because you are hiring from overseas, shipping money jobs elsewhere, so not only is there less money in country, but in order to get and retain jobs, workers have to practically agree to overtime or they pick someone else (btw, in New Jersey, you know who they pick (delayed joke, read below)? People from Ukraine). Fuck you, my parents worked and then went home to see their family, and usually didn't have an empty house, I don't need your overtime.

In Ukraine, as I read their culture prep thing, they were talking about how under communism, business effectively imploded, and now family is a value there. They are completely corrupt, and do a great deal of things I hate (patriarchy, overeating and drunk culture, and abuse culture, to say nothing of the fact that their city women basically try to dress to pick up foreign men so they can get out of the dump int order to go to America where they can be taken care of (read above)), but the one thing they did right? Valuing family over work.

Stop choosing overtime over your kids! The kids don't need XBoxes, they don't need the mewest computer. They can use that when you've gone to bed. And stop the perfectionism, be a normal parent not a helicopter mom. Okay, the kid does not need ten hobbies to prepare them for college. Nor do they need to study until blue in the face. Teach them how to have friends, how to let themselves in so they aren't waiting in the cold, and how to care for themselves. Don't neglect, don't smother, just be the parent. No housewife no househusband, the house doesn't need to be swept more than once a week. Yes seriously, I've had an apartment with guys who were useless. It can only get so dirty. Do housework once a week and if hubby complains, you show him the broom, ditto for househusbands and their wives. The house needs cleaning but your kids need your love more.

author=Corfaisus
I'm sure they mean that when adult supervision arrives, they'll call the authorities if they see a kid sitting outside, but that was a rather stupid way to put it.

I haven't heard a lot about Oregon, but so far, none of it has been good.


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Dude. Do I have stories to tell you. Do you want to start with how weird Portland is? Or how about how all the rednecks that are too extreme for red states move out into the countryside. Oregon literally has the most extreme republicans and democrats. We have liberals so liberal that they would fight for door sex, don't get me started on the animal sex rally. And republicans so uptight that they refuse service to non christian whites in some places. Swegle has always been a shit school though so this doesn't surprise me. They also happen to produce the largest number of delinquents somehow. I guess we now know why.

EDIT: In case of misunderstanding the "I guess we know why" part it's because the parents are too fucking lazy to take care of their own kids.

author=LightningLord2
Whenever I hear about how ridiculously hostile democrats and republicans are to one another, I begin to wonder when there'll be a massive, violent conflict and/or the seperation of the US into two states.

The worst part is that I've been around the US. I've seen almost every city/town in the country and I've been to every state. Oregon is one the the better states if you can believe it. This is also the reason for why I'm so doom and gloom half the time. I know just how bad it really is.