P.S. 158

Yes - I'm talking you.  The foul tempered and overly mean and rude woman who works in the office on the second floor.  Yes, it is your responsibility to post "acceptable" times to drop off kindergarten applications.  There is a flyer downstairs with the police woman that clearly states we can come by today, February 20, 2013 between the hours of 9 am and 12 noon.  Do not tell me otherwise.  I have a picture of the flyer and it still resides downstairs in the "official" binder.

First off, nowhere on THIS page does it say that you can set your own hours on when you choose to accept applications!

Second, I understand that you're dealing with a mountain of paperwork.  I am in no way oblivious to the fact.  However, that is YOUR JOB!!!  You take the applications, you enter them into whatever system you have.  Let me repeat - my application in no way changes the fact that your job requires you to enter all the paperwork into the system.  Whether you take my application yesterday, today or tomorrow - it still must be entered.  Forcing parents to come when it's convenient for you is a total farce.

When I follow the HOW TO APPLY directions from the DOE, you should be capable of accepting a stack of papers and incorporating it into your existing stack.  It's not rocket science.  It's your JOB.  I chose a different career.  You chose to work within the infrastructure of the public school system.  Yes, without a doubt, registration is a pain in your yearly job details - but so be it.

Oh look.  Fantastic.  It looks like you did actually update your actual school's page to remove today's date from your list of acceptable times to drop off an application.  For those of us that are new to NYC -  we visit the DOE website,  not each individual school's website.  No where on the DOE site does it indicate that you should visit each school's website on the off chance that they've decided only to accept applications during 42 hours over the course of 6 weeks.

Seriously, 42 hours.

I'm livid.  There is absolutely no reason for you to be rude or mean tempered.  It's not exactly a walk in the park to get your child registered for kindergarten and even less pleasant of an experience when the staff is behaving worse than the children they're supposed to be teaching.