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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I have ONE left in PUBlic School, and he is old enough {{{{{{{SENIOR year}}}}}}}} to fill them out...I just sign them.
but..........
EGADS
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I am enrolling 2 of my 3 littles (one is tooooooooo little) in online virtual homeschool...
and I have been on the phone, scanning, snapping pics, uploading, renaming and reuploading for hours!?!!?
this is the digital age?
I dread school registration and the forms, the forms...
what stack of forms do you have to get done?
 
One more form for one more transcript I thought they already had -- forms forms forms.
 
Ugh, back to school forms! What I don't understand is why we can't say "none of this info has changed since last year"? Why do we have to fill EVERYTHING out again? DD still doesn't have any food allergies; we live at the same home; I'm still here as is DH; etc. The only thing that is changing is her grade but they already know that!

DH and I bought our home without a Realtor (it was a pocket sale), so we had to read and fill out/sign everything ourselves. Once we hashed out the details, the sellers had a lawyer look over everything and we had to sign more papers (you know, cuz... lawyers). And then we of course did the closing and that's lots of paperwork too lol but at least we had a lawyer at closing (or settlement, depending where you're from), so he and the paralegal (who knew just as much as the lawyer imo) handled any questions we had while signing our life away. I mean our life savings away. Ugh. But hey, it's over and I have a house. :)
 
ugh .. so true Sara @Tree City ...what a waste of paper redoing all those forms again and again each year if nothing changes. (and out the papers for buying/selling homes is a total nightmare!)

we are still weeks away from school starting ... but the amount of forms I have to sign drives me nuts too ... mostly consents for school policies and the syllabus for each & every class my kids take. i'd prefer you email it to me and i reply that i read it. then i can store it neatly in a folder in my email account. (and easily reference it later if need be) ... really you are right Anne, there is not much digital in the way of forms at the public schools @AnneofAlamo

for me i need to prove residency in my state for in-state tuition ... and get something notarized before the fall semester begins. that's a pain too.
 
TOTALLY feel your pain! We have all the school forms (plus more medical forms to my son to have an inhaler at school- that he hasn't needed in the last 6 months-ugh!) BUT I have a bunch of yearly dr's appointments that have all sent my paperwork. I FILLED THEM ALL OUT LAST YEAR! My allergy doc paper work is just insane- like front back fo 5 pages! Sheesh- killin' way too many trees! ;)

on a funny side note- My son says he doesn't want to be a policeman when he grows up because there is too much paperwork! :D His preschool did a tour of the police station where the officer told them they needed to learn how to read & write because they had all this paperwork (as they walked through the hallway full of file cabinets!)
 
We do get print outs of the information as they have it and all we have to do is mark anything that has changed and send it back. There are a few other things that still need to be filled out, like who can pick up kids, etc. and lots of signatures. Still too much, and I dread it along with keeping up with it for students!! When my oldest, and my daughter got old enough to fill out some of there own, like for the bus, and they got to the part about "who to contact in case of emergency", they would always put 911 LOL because in my son's words "If I get seriously hurt, what are you going to do for me. They can call you after 911".
 
I will add "no forms to fill out" to my list of things to love about homeschooling. We just have to write a very short letter to the school district every year, announcing our intent to homeschool. All I do is open up the previous year's letter and change my kids' ages and the date, and send it off. I can even do it by email now! Yay!

I actually used to love filling out forms. But nowadays I get annoyed to have to do it on paper. We used to go to a doctors office that had us fill out a new form with every visit and I wondered too, why waste paper when we could just say nothing has changed since last time?
 
Our school changed some things over the last couple years... so a lot of the stuff is online. Medical info, Contact Info, Emergency Info, IEP Info, etc. Now, since I filled it out already, it should mostly still be there, and I can make changes if needed this year.

They really are trying to save money and time for everyone these last couple years. We even got a school kit box... all the stuff you need, shipped to school, each student gets a box for what their class needs. All I have to buy is a backpack! No more searching for a box of crayons.
 
Hmmm - that reminds me. I have forms to fill out for my daughter's Friday school. She is homeschooled but attends classes on Friday (and does the homework during the week).

Then there is Girl Scout forms. However, I have electronic copies of those, so I just update, print, and sign.
 
Shoot, that reminds me, I have to make appt for the boys' physicals. Bah humbug.
 
Ugh. I HATE filling out forms. I barely hand-write anything these days, so when I do my hand is confused. Lol. Thankfully I already filled all of the forms out for school when I registered them and paid their tuition before the end of the school year, so I should be done already. I even remembered to get the stupid health forms filled out in May when both my boys have their annual physicals, so I won't have to go back in a rush in August and get those done. Yay! I'm sure when I go in August for parent info night, they'll have invented some other dumb form for me to fill out.
 
All the school forms are online so now i just need to go through pages and pages of updates. The kids' dad does the college stuff so I stay far away from that. All I do is go to the parent section of the school website and give him any transcript report stuff he needs.

But I totally feel the pain.
 
My kids start school September 1st. They are going into 8th and 10th, both play football, so I have THOSE forms on top of the regular school forms. I am going to start doing wrist exercises soon. I have carpal tunnel and I always dread this time of year...lol
 
jk703 said:
Our school changed some things over the last couple years... so a lot of the stuff is online. Medical info, Contact Info, Emergency Info, IEP Info, etc. Now, since I filled it out already, it should mostly still be there, and I can make changes if needed this year.

They really are trying to save money and time for everyone these last couple years. We even got a school kit box... all the stuff you need, shipped to school, each student gets a box for what their class needs. All I have to buy is a backpack! No more searching for a box of crayons.
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Seriously, I don't understand WHY we can't go to electronic forms. It's ridiculous. I can't stand that we are still in the paper stage. Thank goodness I have only one left in public school.
 
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