Uh-oh. The Eighth graders from Suburban Middle School are headed for the Holocaust Museum today. Our plan for today's field trip had been for Mom to go along with Evan to the museum, and then join the classes for lunch at a local pizza place afterward. One of us is going on the field trip. The other sits at the computer keyboard following a flurry of phone calls and e-mails with the school office and the trip organizer.
Last night, just at bedtime, the mister asked if there was a background check on file for me. This was a headache with roots at the start of the school year because I needed to be on campus to take yearbook photos of some events. To be on campus, one must submit to the requisite background check. The background check should be completed on-line, and parents ought not to bother school officials with such issues. Except the automated system claims that this Mama has a password. (And I do have several. None of which was the one the system had in mind.) Head Yearbook Mom suggested e-mailing Administration because the system had her listed under some bizarre user name which prevented her from completing her background check until some flesh-and-blood human being intervened with the all-powerful system. My messages to Administration were never answered, and eventually the inability to resolve the issue ended in the determination that there was a little too much energy required in preparing to be on campus as a volunteer.
Until today. When the boy is scheduled for a class field trip which he expects Mom to be able to attend. Whoops. Guess it's back to fighting the system. *sigh*
3 comments:
Wow...that's some heavy-duty security. A large district?
All of our Catholic schools now require a background check AND training before we can be around the kiddos. The new motto: "Protecting God's Children". I'm all for it but it can be a pain in the A@#.
Were you successful or did they have to go without you?
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