And another thing...

[raxacorricofallapatorius]

...while I'm in annoyed mode.

Normally, on Wednesdays the kids have a half day, getting out at 11:30. Apparently group 5 and up stay until 12:30, a fact which I only just learned today when my son failed to show up at what I thought was the right time.

Amazingly, no one thought to notify me (or the other parents of new Group 5 students) of this. I guess the whole fucking world is supposed to just KNOW this. The teacher looked at me like I had two heads when I said that I hadn't been aware of it. It's ALWAYS been this way, and how could anyone NOT know this.

I just love how foreigners are treated in this country. It's subtle, but the discrimination is very much there.

Comments

[hauntingdream.livejournal.com]

That's weird, that no one even thought to notify the parents. Wasn't there any communication or schedules passed around? Wow for the schooling systems here...

Are all the other parents of new group 5 students foreigners?

I guess I'm feeling a little sensitive concerning your comment about how foreigners are treated in this country. You know I'm Dutch, but I've never done that and I don't know people who do that either. People here are always very open to every kind of foreigner, we go out of our way to speak English with them or if they are French we try to speak French etc. etc.
Not all Dutch people discriminise. Of course some do, but you can't generalise this whole country is treating foreigners with discrimination. (And that is how your comment comes accross to me).

Regarding "everyone knows"

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

They do the same damned thing here in Connecticut. The school system acts as if every parent went to school in this town and knows how things work, but neither my husband nor I are grew up here. Heck, I didn't even grow up in this state.

It's slightly gratifying that this isn't the only place it happens, even if it's still a very aggravating attitude.

[oh--tsarevich.livejournal.com]

After reading this post and your comment to hauntingdream, I am severely pissed off at my fellow country(wo)men >:( seriously, that kind of behaviour is rude and hostile and downright childish. Like it's so difficult to inform foreign parents of changes in their child's schedule, or to at least act understanding when those parents turn out to be unaware of those changes. I'm sorry people here are treating you this way!