We pulled Erin out of school.

This morning was the last straw. We went to the school, looked for Erin's name on the class rosters, and it was nowhere. We went inside, and still, she was not on any class rosters. We went to the registrar, and she said that we needed to go to the nurse because Erin's shots weren't current (they are now, but they weren't last year, and we never filed her new shot record) so we went to the stupid nurse, and she wouldn't clear Erin to even be placed on a class roster without the new shot record on file.

OK, that's not an unreasonable request, I guess... BUT Couldn't they have told me about this during one of the three trips I took to that stupid school last week? And what's more, the lack of a Hepatitis A shot is NOT exactly a national emergency. They couldn't just say they needed the shot record by the end of the week? No, of course not, these morons wouldn't even let her in the door.l

So we told them in so many words just where they could shove it, and pulled Erin out of East Point Elementary for good. We called one private school, and another local public school district which has nothing but rave reviews, and allows people to transfer in from out of district... for a price. We also discovered that the school right up the street from us has rave reviews from everyone, so we went up there and tried to get her in on an in-district transfer, but they're already at capacity, so they couldn't take us. They did, however, recommend a comparable school after I explained the situation, "Are there any other decent schools in this district? We were at East Point and pulled her out this morning because we were completely horrified with everything about it." They nodded knowingly, and recommended Scottsdale. We're going to check it out tomorrow, and if we don't like it or they can't take us, then we'll go to a couple private schools, and begin the application process.

I'm also thinking I'm going to need to purchase a decent homeschool curriculum within the next few days, and start homeschooling her until we manage to get a transfer approved or get accepted to a private school.

This is harder than I thought it would be, but in a big way, it feels extremely good to have given those awful people the big middle finger they deserve. They're a joke and we told them so. It was as if they'd never heard that before either, but you know what? They need to. If they think their school is good, they are delusional, and need parents who have been outside the El Paso city limits and know what a REAL school and REAL teachers are like, to let them know that they're doing a piss poor job, and aren't worth the tax dollars that pay them. Maybe we opened a few eyes today. And if not, at least we gave them back a little bit of the pain in the ass they've given us over the past few months.

Bye-bye East Point! Keep screwing up kids' lives all you want, just not ours. Stick to those little illegals in the nasty apartments. It's not like their parents pay taxes or anything.... We'll take our kid elsewhere, because she is worth more than what you have the competence to give.