What are your pet peeves?

[katiesue]

My daughters school has the worst communication ever. They've bought some voice calling system. They record messages and then the machine calls your house. Few problems -

1. My machine tends to cut off half or more of the messages.
2. If the munchkin answers the phone she listens to half the message before handing me the phone.
3. If I'm doing something else and the phone rings I'm not immediately ready to receive information.

So I must not have been the only parent with this problem and now they email you a copy of the voice recording as well. Why they can't type out the message is beyond me. So at least I actually get them.

Now here's what made me nuts yesterday. There is a mention in a note from her teacher that Back to School night is Thursday, but no time. So I finally call the school yesterday morning. Phone rings and rings then goes to a voice mail box that isn't activated. OK. Call again and get a person. She tells me the time and I mention that the event is tomorrow and we haven't received any information yet. I get a snippy "we're sending a call out today". Whatever. Just nice to have some notice especially as you aren't supposed to bring the kiddies, parents only. So you do have to make arrangements.

Lastly the schools website has some limited information, all badly formatted. The PTA section hasn't been updated for over two years. They quit newsletters home on a regular basis three years ago. It's frustrating especially if you work and aren't in/around the school daily. You have no idea what's going on.

Oh and I did say, more than once, that I'd be happy to help update the website to the PTA people but they tell me so and so is doing it. Ummm apparently not.