I have too many of these people here, like I don't understand how these people Just Like to be annoying to other as If they would even care how the students do in school they just find an excuse to make the parents and students feel bad.
The dentist is literally only open during school hours I HATE when they shame you for this like yes I know its an inconvenience I have to leave work too
Always enjoyed getting half a day off school! But now i miss only like, maybe an hour because i switched to my dentist's afternoon hours because it was difficult catching up on a foreign language
Interesting thing is, the receptionist lady has no pawns in this game. She’s only being inconvenienced by a parent asking her to do what’s in her job description - getting the child so they could get picked up.
I was born with an extremely rare bone condition that basically affected every aspect of my body and also caused me pain and fatigue constantly. Even though my school KNEW about my condition and that I needed to attend appointments regularly and was in and out of hospital, I’d still have to go through at least three different people to get the permission and then reception would still be passive aggressive with my mum when she came to get me or when she phoned in to say that I wouldn’t be in 💀 still made it to university though so I’m not doing too bad all things considered lol, receptionists are so fucking dramatic
Omg same here! I have a different condition to you, but it’s a chronic illness and it affected my school attendance a lot through high school. They make it so difficult and are so judgemental! I’m glad I don’t have to deal w them anymore 😂🤦♀️
@@HirstMovies uni debt does suck, but just a heads up if you or anyone else is in the UK like these skits are - don’t try to pay it off. A man called Martin Lewis explains this way better than me, but uni debt here gets written off after a time limit, doesn’t count as normal debt, and the amount you repay is income based. It’s almost always better to just pay that minimum amount like it’s a utility bill and let the loan expire.
The bad thing for my little girl is she tries so hard, but she is literally unable to achieve 100% attendance as they use hospital appts that keep her alive against her attendance performance!
"He has had a sick day in the past month" oh he was sick for 1 day last month, well that changes everything. His mom should just postpone his dentist appointment for next school year so he doesn't have any absences yet
All these seemingly serious things like, bad attendance rate, missing classes really don’t matter at all when you go to university. And no one tells you that so during school days it feels like end of the world 😂
@@sabias3932 im sorry but did you mean to say that your high school attendance matters at work ?? obviously you cant skip your job everyday but calling in sick or missing a shift for a doctor appointment is fine
@@seriouslatte9167 it does not matter at work however it does matter in highschool. If you miss too much of school your parents will be in trouble. At least in countries with good education system. In college if you miss too much of school you will get kicked out.
That's because they do...Read your papers VERY carefully. They don't have to notify parents of gender preferences, what their educational material is, whether they visit counselors. To to it all off, if there's an emergency at the school, the school can transport students anywhere they choose WITHOUT notifying parents. When you REGISTER your kids, you are literally signing away your rights.
My mom straight up took me to Disneyland in the middle of the school year. “But there’s a spelling test that week,” “She’s in fourth grade, don’t care.”
They once called the hospital to check I was lying about my appointment, I had broken my ankle badly and was going to physio every couple of weeks for all of year 11 and we could only get appointments at like 2.
@@angel_cat funniest thing is that Germany doesn't even has school receptionists. We got the secretary, but they usually just let you go if you have the needed paper signed by your teacher and can be picked up. If you have an appointment you're just picked up. And if you're sick you'll get an "excuse" from you parent that gives the reason why you were home or left early. They're just unnecessary personelle.
I remember when I was in 3rd grade and one of my classmates got picked up from school in the middle of our science class cuz her mum gave birth to her brother and my science teacher had rolled her eyes and said something along the lines of school is important or something. I laugh anytime I think about it like did this woman think 3rd grade science was soo important that the girl should not have gone to meet her baby brother and celebrated 😂😂😂
Receptionist rang me a couple of days ago to pick my daughter up cause she was poorly and when I got there they asked why I was picking her up early and what was wrong with her… even though they had called me to say she needed to come home… 🙄
Right? I picked up my daughter cause she threw up. And they demanded she stay home for 4 days. Yet, if i keep her off for 4 days for a real reason. They get out the pitchforks!!!!
@@AllyBubblesSpriggs This happened to me! I had to keep my son home because he had an upset stomach, they told me to keep him off for 48 hours and then called me out on him being off in front of the other parents at pick up once he went back. I was fuming.
My daughter's school called me at work to inform me she fell in a puddle and was totally soaked, I needed to bring her a change of clothes. I said "sure thing, I'm at work but I'll be right there" the receptionist then says "Well the school day ends in just over 2 hours, you could just pick her up." I'm like "Uh, no, I'm at work until 430, I can run her by some dry clothes though, I'm taking my lunch break now". I ran around like a mad woman trying to make it from work to home to the school and back before my break was over. I arrived at the school and it was literally just one knee of her pants that was, by this time, slightly damp. She wasn't even bothered. Baffling honestly how it got blown out of proportion.
@@Whatdoesthisboxdo I tried the opposite. My daughter has now experienced several times that the secretaries refuse to call home when she feels really sick or has severe period pains (very strong period pains runs in the family unfortunately). They just give out pain killers, which only help a little, and then urge her to continue her day. I work from home and can pick her up anytime, but they refuse to even call us, so she is in pain for hours at school :O
I remember when I was late to school because my nose couldn't stop bleeding my dad and I had to hear a whole lecture about how important it is to never skip school or be late no matter what. I was nine....
I’d be like “Er, no, you will be putting it as absence excused and furthermore I’d prefer no passive aggressiveness in future when I come to collect my child. It is my child and I will decide whether the reason is important enough for them to leave school. Now go fetch my child, and without the commentary please.”
Yeah, I do not play that shit. Well before picking up my child their teachers would've known the day before they had an appointment. It's going to be an excused absence and no extra lip.
They really do make parents feel like shit sometimes😂 I was told that if u get an appointment go for it coz they are so damn hard to get. Like geez lady the dentist is also important. Like they never take a day off for the same🙄😂😂
There once was a receptionist at my old school, I don’t know how she treated parents but she made _me_ feel like shit 😭 There was day when I was sick, like *really* sick. I had thrown up so I asked my teacher if I could call my mom home from my phone since my locker was much closer than the office. I called and texted her and she didn’t respond. So I got permission to go downstairs and call. The receptionists then proceeds to get upset at me for using my phone, even after I explained the sub had let me. She said, “You’re not allowed to use your phone during school hours. I don’t care if your teacher let you, she was a sub so she clearly doesn’t know what she’s doing. You used your phone when you know for a fact you’re not supposed to.” My mom also didn’t respond to the school’s phone calls. So I had to spend the rest of the day feeling like shit both because I was sick, and cause of her. 😑
Ooh, I remember this one. Had one like that with my mom. Wish I'd seen the look on her face when she found out it was because my heart was, you know, *being monitored for an aneurysm and all that.*
@@TheNameless- well I'm sorry. I know some of the older ones can be. But I even used to go play p.e with me kids. I was even the first lunch lady ever (in my district) to chaperone one graduation trip.
@@karendouglas1688 The younger lunch lady at my primar school. Would stay back after lunch and help out the next lesson of P.E too. She got no extra money she just really liked the kids and her job. The sweetest person I ever met.
I remember when I was in my Junior year of highschool, I went away for about a week for my uncle's funeral. When my family and I came back I got a letter in the mail saying if I missed any more days of school, I'd be labeled a truant. God forbid I go to a funeral for family I care about! This system is fucked.
I had a similar thing when I worked for a school. My mum phoned me just as I got into work and said my grandfather (her dad) had died. She was alone so I had to take the day off to go look after her. The next week I needed a day off for the funeral, 300km away. The response I got was "you've already had a day off for this death".
Me too I had to go out of state for my dad's uncle and was gone a week. My administrator told me I was gonna loose all my credits and was not only rude to me, but to my mom and wouldn't believe us despite having a slip from the funeral home as proof because "that only gives excuse for that day not for the rest of the days you were absent." Even my teachers were mad at her because they knew i didnt miss school just because and they vouched for me. All my teachers said either "your not loosing your credit because we know who you are as a student and we know you didn't miss school because you wanted too," or "dont worry just make up the hours and your good." My mom even went to the district's offices and told the really nice lady and she was very upset too and scolded the administrator for basically threatening me about my credits despite being a straight A student.
@@xvanna_ro It's good that you guys complain about that because they really can't do that, what a horrible bunch of Administrators and teachers. Disgusting.
Lmao I remember I had one of the worst attendance rates in my school, it was like 20% or something like that and a acceptable one is 90%. I got hit by a car
Why are school receptionists always so exaggerated? Like, the kid is not gonna fail their whole school year just for not going to school for 1 day, even if it was a test day they can just give him the test another day
Are we aware that dentists aren't open on the weekends or after like 4:30pm like when the hell am I supposed to go?? Damn they make people feel guilty asf, my dad used to be like idgaf I'm yeeting my child we got things to do
We have dentists open on the weekends but let's be honest, that's not how i want to spend *my* day off. Their school *career* will be fine missing a few hours here and there.
Receptionist like this made my mom and I’s lives fucking hell growing up being I have chronic illnesses and a disability I missed a lot it’s like “alright Sarah I know you’re menopausal and feeling empty after finishing your vampire romance novel but don’t take it out on everyone else”
Receptionists are genuinely another breed. I once knocked on the screen to the office (during Covid) to ask to grab some covid tests, since you had to knock on the screen. She ignored me, and i overheard her just...talking with a friend about what she did yesterday. So after a minute I knocked again and she looked at me full of rage and said "I AM ON THE PHONE, WAIT". So I left and my family couldn't test for covid and gave it to several other people 😭
I hate teachers like that. In my first year of high school our grade coordinator was always complaining and saying to the students how much she did for them and her job in general. It was really stupid because we were all trying our hardest and she made us all feel bad about being a literal student at the school.
I can’t wait to meet people like this when my son comes. Receptionists and doctors, nurses, etc. are so judgmental when you don’t do everything the way they see fit. I think hm.. should be I be overly nice and a splash of joy or should I put them in their place? Hard choices
... just put them in their place, they'll never learn otherwise anc if you can make sure as much of the school as possible hears it happening that way the rest will know not to fck with you
Because teachers , nurses etc are the only professions banged on and on again in media so they think they are the only workers alive . Yes we get it your underpaid and work sooooo hard. But dear lord a million other jobs do too and we don't get a look in .I know someone whom is a nurse and litterally every Instagram post is just starting my shift , just ending my shift , picture outside hospital. 🙄 Bore off!!!! Yes you have job ,yes shifts which you get time off too . Yes we all work . It's soo annoying. It's constantly look at how hard I must be working , look I'm a nurse so I'm Florence nightingale. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 🤦
I really don't get why receptionists act like that- like girl, taking phone calls & speaking to people is literally your job. Why are you always getting agitated over it? Another thing, why do the receptionists always downplay the parents/students for having a medical appointment or emergency? Why do you gaf if someone is missing school, lady? I'm in year 11 and I have asthma & PCOD- I either always get colds once every month or have really bad cramps once in a while. The receptionist was informed of this years ago (w/ medical reports) yet she still always makes a face at me & my mom whenever I have a sick day or have to be pulled out of a lesson. I mean do you really think we want to do this?
I’m just glad back when I was in public school the secretaries were extremely nice and understanding, they had their moments but were really nice most of the time
Mine was excused absences vs unexcused absences. You could have only like 3 unexcused absences and like 6 excuse absences in like a 3 month period otherwise it would affect your grade whether by dropping it a letter or having to retake the whole class again.
My school would threaten to hold you back if you missed more than 10 days the entire year for literally any reason. Their reason was that if you "missed that much school you would never be able to keep up and would fall so far behind it's better to repeat the year". They did this to me when all my grades were in the 90s except one which was high 80s. One of my grades was a perfect 100%, but yeah, go off and tell me I'm "super far behind". That included a test that I attended zero classes for, and just did a brief review of the material.
They aren't even allowed to shout at you or your mom. If that's the case you really should go and complain about that because they are Not allowed to do so.
theyre always so pressed about attendance i literally had like 80% attendance and nothing happened, i caught up on work easily, nobody died 👍 update: and i got good gcses :)
Same here. Jr and Sr year I went to school 3-4 days/week. The principal threatened to make me repeat Sr year or do summer school or some such nonsense so I wouldn't get my diploma on time with the rest of my class. I had to remind him that I was on the honor roll all 4 years, had a perfect behavioral record and had been recruited for Nat'l honor society, but declined b/c I didn't want to participate in the requisite number of clubs and extracurricular activities b/c a) I had a part-time job after school and b) I fucking hated most of my classmates. Attendance is all you've got on me? Bitch, please. Go deal with the delinquents and flunkies and kids passing out in the middle of math class when they come down from their coke high, or maybe the multiple girls who got knocked up and leave me alone. Not to mention that at least 6 of my absences during those 2 years were for school trips for my Spanish and business classes so that I would have some club activities on my student record that everyone bitched about me not having enough of.
Exactly! I’m in sixth form college atm and I’ve got like 78% attendance and yet I’m *still* getting good grades. They’re always so pressed about telling people how much they’ll fail if they skip class, but I’ve been doing fine without going in (I have really bad anxiety and low moods so it’s hard to go in sometimes)
Most British schools are managed by academies. They have a daily attendance report and you get reprimanded if the attendance percentage is lower than what they want. This is because there is a link between low attendance and ofsted ratings. Receptionists also don’t get paid enough but they have several jobs to do and are constantly disrupted. It might seem like they are making a big deal but if a child leaves before their afternoon mark it can also change their attendance percentage. They are also the first point of security in the school so have to record the reason why a child has left the building and who with. It might seem inquisitive but they are required to safeguard the child. But I must admit the tone and demeanour makes all the difference. It’s best to come across friendly and approachable.
I don't think any parent minds saying why the child will be missing school. It's the fact that many receptionists don't believe the parents. I took my daughter out of school for 2 days to visit our home country to renew her passport (damn important to always be up to date if you are an immigrant in the UK, especially after Brexit). They refused to authorize the absence because they didn't believe it wasn't a holiday O.O after making a big fuss and talking (half yelling at the end after they brushed me off 5 times) with the Vic principal and sending numerous proof that my native country doesn't allow postal applications for passport renewals and reminding them that Scandinavia is damn cold in Winter, not a time I'd go on holiday there, they finally authorized it 😵 It was so frustrating.
Its weird how attendance gets affected??? Like in my school we had absent and excused and if you were sick or had an appointment you were excused and it didnt affect your grade.
I'm sorry would you rather my child have 100% attendens while passing the plague and being in pain or would you rather have them perfectly well and not bothering the school nurse? I'd pick the second option
ISTG the way you nailed the role! I had one exactly like this, made it absolute hell for me and my mom by making us wait for hours (for no reason at all she was just on a power trip) and my mom, being the best, took no shit of hers and threatened to call the cops on her saying that this was kidnapping coz she was holding me back from my mom despite her protests......I was good to go in 5 mins then. ☺️
So true!! And yet all the teachers managed to get degrees on the back of a pre 2000's education system that would let our parents pull us our for a 2 week holiday to Spain lol. But I'm sure missing 3 lessons for an appointment will destroy his chances when the exams roll around.
I had a lecture like this when my son had been in hospital for an exploratory op for suspected cancer. Thankfully, it was negative. They didn't ask about the outcome. they just wanted to show their "authority." Still makes my blood boil 13years on.
I always felt like the school was punishing me when I was ill, my parents always got appointments outside of school time so I only missed school when I was genuinely sick. I've been sent home from school for having a nosebleed that madr me go really pale and I got marked down absent for the rest of the day 😤
