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One parent said the influx of permission slips is getting "out of control" and "burdensome."

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 122 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This is fucking insane:

"I had to sign a permission slip for my child who could drive himself to see it in a movie theater," Judi Hayes told the outlet.

Parents like Hayes said they must sign a new permission slip for after-school programs and events almost every week.

"It seems like it's just it's out of control. It's every single activity. And it's burdensome on the staff because they have to chase down permission slips. The club's sponsors are getting frustrated and giving up because it's too much work," Hayes said.

Hayes added that she even had to sign a form so her child could receive pre-calculus tutoring with their teacher after school. The teacher referenced the Parental Rights in Education law in notes to parents explaining why they were being asked to sign a permission slip.

Just apart from this being a completely irrational way to go about things, can you imagine how much time this takes up for everyone involved?

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 104 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to a world where everything in school has to be okayed by every parent, else they risk losing their job if someone complains.

Conservative fucks are gonna try to make this the future of public schools, because the inefficiency is the point.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The party of small government has one goal. To make government buearacracy so big and slow you throw your hands up in frustration and not participate. So then they can come in and saw only they can fix the mess they created and only make it bigger.

[–] Countess425@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aha! The only solution to this endless waste of bureaucracy is privatization!

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Which then contracts out the service to the gov't for the same price, cuts the service down to the easiest bare minimum, manages to screw that up while gov't takes the blame, requires double the money from the gov't to hire a ton of labor since the service is vital, gets huge profits from taxpayer money while providing nothing, gets service barely operational, calls it a success, charges gov't more, fires most of workforce, starts charging taxpayers monthly separately on top of gov't contract, adds fees, never touches service again, uses ill-gotten double-dipped tax payer money to lobby gov't for anti-competitive regulations so no other companies can "innovate" and provide features that existed for a century when the service wasrun by the gov't.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yet another reason I'm glad this state has a public online school program that I could put my daughter in. No permission slips ever. Even if they do have an (always optional) "field trip," it involves a parent taking them to a location and staying there with them.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

this state

Are you actually in Florida?!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Nope. Indiana.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

"See how inefficient the government is? Education needs to be run by private companies."

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Think of it in terms of staff salaries versus the taxes used to pay them. If you can get people to consider that, they'll suddenly want to be the party of small government again.