School Orientation
The child went off to her 7th grade orientation today at her new middle school. She came home with seemingly hundreds of sheets of paper with ridiculous things we are supposed to sign, including how parents will be responsible for the child's conduct on busses, how the school system is not responsible if the kid sees porn on the Internet, and a HUGE pile of "opt out" forms to opt out of everything from family life education, to commercial use of kid's picture, to prohibiting the school from giving information to military recruiters.
Then, there's the litany of things I have to write checks for. New gym uniforms, yearbook, attempts to extort money by the PTA, and order forms for "school spirit wear." Strange, I didn't know that ghosts needed clothing, or that they had official school ghosts, but I guess things have changed since I went to school.