Two parents were kind enough to help carry the 84 reams of paper up to the teacher's workroom and now they are being blamed for 'forcing an employee' to let them in to the open building. Seriously?
Apparently, no good deed goes unpunished.
Rather than saying THANK YOU, the parents and donors are being railed by Dr. Fredisdorf and Principal Meg Pokorny for bringing an "unprecedented"
The best part is that Meg Pokorny is trying to say that paper is not stored in the teacher's workroom. If that's true, then why was there a stack of brown and black construction paper there? Why are there stacks of copy paper in there? Of course it is not stored in the teacher's workroom where teachers and students are able to access it - because she keeps it under lock and key! Teachers and students must utilize a "new distribution system" if they want any construction paper. Why do teachers have to ask for paper? Shouldn't it be readily available?
The bottom line is that they don't want this donation because it will circumvent the rigorous education process of strictly learning what is going to be tested and they don't test creativity! They don't want kids being creative. They don't want anyone's help or donations. They just want complete control of everything.
Again, who is being hurt in all of this? Oh yeah, it's those little guys at the bottom of the totem pole.
We thought we'd share an email from Meg in regard to the generous donation of paper.This email was sent out after not one, but two requests for acknowledgement that the paper was received. Notice, still no THANK YOU!
Dear Kim,
We are frequently blessed with gifts and donations from parents and in every instance that I recall, the parent either came into the office to deliver the gift or contacted me in advance to ensure that it wouldn’t cause disruption to our routine or to instruction. The paper you refer to was delivered to the teacher’s workroom after school hours, without notification to Joni, myself, or anyone in the office, although we were there at the basketball game. Two Board member requested that our custodian provide access to an area of the building closed off to non employees after 3:30. The note that accompanied the paper was discovered the next day and was addressed to “Teachers”. Unfortunately, deliveries of items under circumstances like this don’t always appear to have been made in goodfaith (sic).
I feel bad that time, effort and expense was incurred because you or someone else were given bad information. Your email mentions that you heard there was a need for construction paper at Middle School. Actually, there never was such a need. If you had contacted me in advance this could have been avoided. The fact is that we no longer keep our workroom stocked with a large selection of paper in all colors and sizes. I changed the system for how construction paper would be provided this year in order to cut down on waste and improve supply to teachers who needed it. In fact, a large shipment was delivered to school on November 17th and distributed to the teachers who had requested . If you’d like to know more about our system for supplyingteachers, (sic) just let me know. The paper found in the workroom was added to our supply reserves and will be delivered to teachers as they request it.
There are a good number of parents who, like you, are dedicated to helping me make our Middle School the best it can be. Those parents call or email me whenever they or their children experience or notice something that they think I should be aware of. If they have suggestions, I can’t always follow them, but I know that they really want to help us improve. Whenever I hear from then, I am sincere in my thanks for their help. Going forward, I hope you’ll do the same.
Meg P.
3 comments:
Memo to Meg: Liar, liar, pants on fire!!
I knew nothing about this paper issue, but I have to thank the parents for taking matters into their own hands. How could an employee of our district be so openly ungrateful to a group a parents? It is embarrassing. There are 2 groups being hurt in this - first the teachers, as the gift was for them, how could Meg take the paper away? Second, our children - the paper should be free-flowing now that we have an overabundance. In these economic times, a public school should be thankful that people are thinking of them. I'll have to think twice about donating to Pleasantdale again. How can she look herself in the mirror? Thank you to the parents who donated - what a generous deed!
I am embarrassed that our school system would be so ungrateful for the gift of construction paper. This is just them trying to get rid of Mrs. Washburn by not giving her the supplies she needs to allow our children to be creative. My son loves her and she is a loving teacher who really cares for her students!!! Parent this is our school, lets start telling them how thing will be done they work for us! Also I think every parent should be given a copy of this letter to know Meg is just following the 5 school board members who think they are above everyone else. Half of them don't even have kids in our school it's time to take a stand!!! For our Kids!!
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