Sheesh. We had two tags, each a different color and shape. The one shaped like a car meant a parent would pick up the boy. The one shaped like a bus meant the boy would ride the bus.

I like our system a bit better.

Oooh! How about a flowchart?! Everybody LOVES flowcharts!! You know, like an oval starting it all off that leads to a diamond where you have to make a decision and then based on that decision you have to choose which shape is next, and so on? And then you could scan the eyeballs of each children to make certain he, or she, is in fact allowed to go such-n-such program where a DNA testing, along with a urine sample...

mrB, HA! Yea, I was with you right up until the time you had the kids peeing .... heeeheee

Huh?? Okay then . . . must be the example of how to communicate ineffectively.

Everybody pees (and poops). In fact, just a few moments ago I...yeah, never mind.

Sounds like Mr. Kimball from "Green Acres" wrote this!

That kind of thing just makes me crazy. (Well, crazier than usual, I mean.)

I don't even know where to begin with that one, so I'll just say Hi.

Good God, that's horrible.

Did you send an email back saying "Um... what?"

Maybe it makes sense in a foreign language, you know, the one without edit.

maybe you could change your blog name to "What ARE YOU Thinking?"

maybe?

Well, i'm not exactly sure whats being said but i'll take a stab at it.

They want to make sure the children are accounted for and where they are supposed to be.

Thats all I got. Seem it could have been shortened down by 90%.

Hugs and Love to you.

I was wondering if you were going to sum it up at the end and I was happy to see that it made no sense to you either. I hate reading stuff like that.

I feel like they are trying to say that kids are cutting after school activities or just to make sure someone knows where your kid is at all times. I'm not going to try reading it anymore because it's really giving me a headache.

Hunh??

"Do you walk to school or carry your lunch?"

Was what an old friend of mine used to say when he would get letters from school that made no sense.

Wait. First they say that written notes to teachers aren't necessary and then in the VERY NEXT SENTENCE it says that they encourage you to write a note to your child's teacher.

I'm so confused.

Perhaps the school offers a language immersion class for English. It seems certain staff members should attend.

Sounds like someone needs to be a STUDENT at Cool School instead of a person in charge eh??? This sounds like alot of the people who work at the same school district I work at too. Oy!

nina, yea, sometimes bad examples are helpful :)

mrB, thank you for sharing (not).

katy, ha! I had forgotten him, but I saw a rerun last night. And you make me think of this guy called "Mr. Double Talk," Derwood or Derwin something or other. He's on TV talking nonsense to people on the street, and they usually agree with him even though he said nothing at all.

karen, I know, sometimes I think they're just TRYING to make us lose it ;)

Hi, ladybug! :)

ck, no, I didn't respond. Except here ;)

kat, now that would be a good explanation. It is, after all, about a foreign language class. Or maybe it is a test, maybe we were supposed to edit it and return . . .

KYbrat, ya think? ;)

peaches, yea, I'm sure you're right. "Make sure your kids go where they're supposed to, and we'll try to make sure we know where they are." That's about it.

JOMAMA!, sorry for the headache. It's nice to see you here :)

eclectic, see, you are truly my sister; that's exactly what I said.

william, perfect, that should have been the title for this post!

candace, yea, that's when I first realized it was going to be one of THOSE. Wait, I send a note? I don't send a note? OK, one of THOSE...

lynn, ha, I'll put that in the suggestion box ;)

DoF, is it really you, and not the Mrs.? Either way, yes, indeed. By the time such messages are distilled, it often turns out they're not necessary anyway. Who needs to read that people read? Academic jargon, from any discipline, is the worst: the more words I use, the smarter I will sound!

traci, I know I'm a little nitpicky, but I do want school communications to be clear. (Perhaps hypocritical from one who rambles as much as I, but still...)

Of course he's the real deal!
I sent Husband over when I saw the post was about a message from school.
He proved to be an expert in dealing with Authorities through the raising of three intelligent sons.
I knew he'd get a kick out of this, but I didn't expect him to quote Feynman.

Well, now. *That* was informative. Whoever wrote that little missive should be in charge of all the kids who miss the bus or don't get picked up after school. Cuz it'll be their fault.

Hilarious... and tragic :-)

THAT is atrocious. My dad seriously would have either called the person that wrote the letter or proofread it in red ink and mailed it back to her. He did this a lot, it was a sickness.