Overloaded
Next time I volunteer to do something, will someone please drag me from the room, tie my hands up, duct tape my mouth and take me shopping?
I am so good at thinking “Hey! I can do that!” And you know what? Generally I can do that, whatever that may be. But why do I have to do everything. Isn’t there some other person on this earth who could do a little something?
I’m getting just a weeeeeeeeee bit burnt out on all my volunteer work.
Why do I keep adding things to the mix? GRRRRRRR.
There’s a non-profit company that offers after school science classes to area schools. I know tons of kids in this program and everyone keeps asking me why Erik doesn’t take these classes. Simple: our school does not offer them.
My friend just became the coordinator of the program at her school, so of course we started talking about it. The company provides the teacher and everything, they just need a coordinator to set up the times and keep track of the kids.
My friend sent me a link so I sent in a request for information. I was really hoping they would say that I could pick Erik up from school and take him over to this other school for the program.
Instead, the person I e-mailed told me I was the new coordinator and she’d be sending me a packet of information via the PTA mailbox.
When I let her know that it was just a request for information and I had no authority to establish this program in our school, though I was willing to be coordinator she told me to “just inform the principal and PTA president that you are the new coordinator and you need to know what days work best for our program.”
I don’t know about you, but I am certainly not informing the principal of any such thing.
I asked the PTA president about it and never heard back, so then I sent an e-mail to both her and the principal asking about it. That got her attention. She e-mailed me back with a list of reasons why this was a bad idea, so I guess it won’t happen. After school programs have to pay rent to the school district for use of the classrooms and the PTA isn’t going to pay for this program. Maybe next year.
You know what I really hate about our school district? It is not an independent entity. It is run by the county government, which really sucks on a lot of different levels. I’ve never heard of a principal being unable to assign classroom space for programs that help enhance student learning. Of course all schools do offer space for rent to outside agencies, but they don’t usually charge for this type of program (as far as I know). Apparently the PTA even has to pay to rent space for PTA meetings and special events for students. I find that completely ridiculous. It is more than just a nominal fee to pay for the custodian and electricity, from what I can tell.
The principal never got back to me.
I am trying to stay cool, calm and collected in regards to this school year. I am not going to try to talk to the teacher until about three weeks in. This was suggested by a teacher and I think it sounds good. Teachers are really busy the first few weeks of school, so we’ll wait and see what happens and if I need to have a come to Jesus talk with the teacher or not.
I can’t homeschool. I proved that today.
Last month I bought a subscription to the Magic School Bus science club. We get a new set of science experiements each month. Today we tried to do our August experiments and it was a miserable fail. Elsa was very interested in ruining everything we were doing. Erik was not interested in following directions or listening to the reasoning behind everything. He was interested in beating down Elsa when she would steal his pipette. I was interested in everyone just sitting still, being quiet and listening for once in their lives.
Failure all around! Elsa was the only happy person in this equation.
Ok, guess I better go make our nightly smoothies and then try to work on this stupid website that I am supposed to be setting up. I hate website building in this day and age. It took me a lot of cursing just to set up the domain name servers because godaddy is completely counter-intuitive. Then when I got to my dreamhost web panel it became apparent that there was a fucking pirate taking control of my accounts so I still have to clean up one of my sites. No telling what horrible virus they’ve planted. I am ready for the death penalty to extend to hackers.
I realize that made zero sense to 85% of you. Sorry! I am frustrated.