The School Nurse, the GP, and the Scary Letter.

pelirocco

lynnemcf wrote: »

Because YOU couldnt be bothered to return an important form, you are blaming the doctor for contacting you. I suggest, you take a little more time to care for your child.

Well obviously you couldn't be bothered to read the OP

FBaby

Because its open to interpretation. On purpose in my opinion.

Everything is open to intepretation, indeed, you can dramatise everything if you wish. However, if OP had asked around and got the advice of sensible people, they would have reassured her that anything that can be dealt with on the phone can't be as serious as she feared.

Pleaseadvise

I didn't expect to find so many replies!

I only got so angry because I'd been very worried. Not everyone would have been, I can see from your replies. But I don't think it was totally unreasonable either.

On Monday evening the doctor rang me to explain - I apologised for adding to her workload, and she was quite nice about it and said it happens a lot.

Then today the missing form arrived and the funny thing is - I think I've filled this in before. Among other things it asks for permission to be weighed and measured, and I know they've already done this, as I got a letter from the nurse giving her height and weight and saying her BMI was fine back in November!

So I wonder if the whole thing was a mistake. But since I'm not worried or angry any more I am definitely NOT going to follow up on that, making more work for everyone. I'm just filling in the form and sending it back.

onlyroz

School comms have improved enormously since they started emailing out the letters rather than stuffing them in the book bags. I just wish that they'd include *all* the school trips, assemblies, concerts, dress-up-as-an-alien-days etc in the school calendar so that when I'm trying to remember when, exactly, the kid is meant to be going on that school trip to the zoo, I have an easy way to find out.

Jagraf

What a muddle, very time consuming, expensive, and completely avoidable with a proper system.

Glad it's sorted, op

Jagraf

onlyroz wrote: »

School comms have improved enormously since they started emailing out the letters rather than stuffing them in the book bags. I just wish that they'd include *all* the school trips, assemblies, concerts, dress-up-as-an-alien-days etc in the school calendar so that when I'm trying to remember when, exactly, the kid is meant to be going on that school trip to the zoo, I have an easy way to find out.

I will be the first to support teachers to the hilt, they do an excellent job.

However,so many have never worked in industry they haven't got a clue how to manage communications.

Add to this parents who think they could teach or who think teachers have an easy job and its a recipe for disaster.

Oh, and add to this schools who think parents sit at home all day with a crystal ball and parents who think schools are babysitters.

Lovely jubbly!