Nope, nothing sent home. We got a newsletter yesterday, but there's nothing on it about that. We get a weekly newsletter, with a yearly schedule for holidays and such, but that hasn't come out yet.
I was not the only parent standing met een mond vol tanden. And yes, the other parent in question was also a non-Dutch. This was one of many incidences that I've had with this school over the years of things "everyone knows," that caught me completely by surprise. It's probably not as conscious as it feels to me sometimes (I am also rather sensitive in the other direction about how foreigners are treated), which is why I said that it's subtle, but it exists.
I was actually referring to the school, and not all of the Netherlands, which on second reading of my post I see that I didn't make clear, so I apologize for that. I didn't mean to generalize so.
I'm mostly upset at once again being made to feel stupid and foolish because I didn't know something that "everyone" knows. After 5 years of it, it gets really, really, old. And I do realize that nobody can "make" you feel anything, but it's hard not to feel that way when you get eye-rolling and sarcasm. Or worse, condescension. My overall experience here in the Netherlands has not been very positive, I'm afraid, and right now I'm struggling with a bad case of "poor pitiful me" syndrome, which is coloring my viewpoint.
I know there are decent people here; I've even met a few. But the bad stuff always hurts more and stays longest, I guess. :c/
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Date: 2008-08-13 11:36 am (UTC)I was not the only parent standing met een mond vol tanden. And yes, the other parent in question was also a non-Dutch. This was one of many incidences that I've had with this school over the years of things "everyone knows," that caught me completely by surprise. It's probably not as conscious as it feels to me sometimes (I am also rather sensitive in the other direction about how foreigners are treated), which is why I said that it's subtle, but it exists.
I was actually referring to the school, and not all of the Netherlands, which on second reading of my post I see that I didn't make clear, so I apologize for that. I didn't mean to generalize so.
I'm mostly upset at once again being made to feel stupid and foolish because I didn't know something that "everyone" knows. After 5 years of it, it gets really, really, old. And I do realize that nobody can "make" you feel anything, but it's hard not to feel that way when you get eye-rolling and sarcasm. Or worse, condescension. My overall experience here in the Netherlands has not been very positive, I'm afraid, and right now I'm struggling with a bad case of "poor pitiful me" syndrome, which is coloring my viewpoint.
I know there are decent people here; I've even met a few. But the bad stuff always hurts more and stays longest, I guess. :c/