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let's dish: what is the worst thing you heard/saw other parents saying/doing on a private school tour? name the school if you can.
23 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]Wasn't this year, but a couple showed up late for a tour. Guide waited 10 or 15 mins, then started without them. They must have been told to catch up. Ran into them standing in a stairwell clicking away on their blackberries. They didn't even apologize for making everyone wait. HM
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open house at T: parent asked H of LS to detain the curriculum year by year; HoS chat at A-S: one mom went on and on about her own personal situation taking up about 3/4 of the time allotted for Q&A; child playdate at B: child in dirty sweats and t-shirt
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at end of tour, couple cornered the asst to the doa in the stairwell to ask about how many spots were open....and as the rest of the group went ahead and emerged into the lobby, the doa noticed her asst was missing...
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On Friends tour--stupid self=proclaimed "atheist" argued with the tour guide about whether or not "god" was mentioned at school at all. Felt back for the woman, this fool just wouldn't give up, kept insisting that the school had some hidden relifious agenda.
[ Reply | Options ]parents going in and out of playdate room to comfort dc who was having difficulty separating. Stayed in room for most of playdate. Yikes
[ Reply | Options ]in St Ann's HOS office a dad spent the entire session on his Blackberry click click clicking
[ Reply | Options ]On preschool tour woman asked first and last name or the person that conducted ERBs at preschool, and wrote it down. Weird! She also asked annoying questions about age and classes and which class her kid would be in, but don't udnerstand how she could not udnerstand it to begin with.
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