Dear efficiency police,
I admit I have been slacking off lately, but that does not make me a bad person. Guilt riddles me for thinking Monday was a pupil free day, when in fact it wasn't.
I know if I had read the latest school newsletter (and probably the one before) I would have known that the pupil free day was cancelled, but I wasn't the only Mum not-in-the-know. I saw an 'a' for absent next to a least one other child on the sign in sheet. But if that wasn't bad enough as I humbly attended school, all be it a day late, B proudly spoke up when asked about his health,
"Oh, I had a pupil free day, I'm not sick."
The parents' laughter still rings in my ears. (please note the plural parents)
I've decided pupil free days are actually a tool the school uses to determine which parents are slackers or not, staff training is just a guise. The efficiency police have spoken to the school and told them to organise a pupil free day each term to weed out the slackers. Then cancel one or two and really see who is on top of the school calendar.
Being found out as the slacker I am, has some benefits though. I can admit to really loving these school holidays. Time away from the routine, demands of homework, music practice, the nightly 'reader' torment, the school lunch doldrums, and the school uniform washing regime have been fantastic.
A new slackness overcame me these last two weeks, an awful lot of T.V. was watched, a lot of mess was made, a lot of takeaway junk food was eaten, computer gaming was involved and B thought one of the best days was pyjama day. We all got to stay in our jammies all day long and the next night. It was simply the best 24 hours he had ever had.
But you will be glad to know that as the pendulum swings one way it returns back just as far the other way. The slackness is sure to be short lived, as I am already thinking of implementing a time chart to limit TV viewing, ensure homework is done, music is practised and quality time is spent together as a family, fully dressed in clothes suitable for the outside.
Yours sincerely,
A slacker Mum.
PS Please make feel better and let me know how the school has caught you out? or at least how you have been slack, a bit?
4 comments:
Yes. To everything you said. YES.
I'm sure public schools just want us to feel slack and inferior. That's why they don't tell us stuff. It's a conspiracy. Wait till they get to high school, then they make you feel GUILTY as well.
And never trust newsletters. They lie. ;)
I think you have to look at little mistakes like this as YOU being in control not them! Mind you even I would baulk at the whole day spent in pyjamas!
OMG - Me too! Me too! I have been known to forget show and tell day, library books (twice OK maybe more) and have left the reader to the next night - Guilty! Jo M
HI Jo, its so nice to hear from you. Hope you are well I am particularly glad as you are admitting to some slacking. Library books are often forgotten here too, which means B isn't allowed to borrow any more, and brings home some guilt for me instead.
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