Doncha love ...

[Daddles]

Doncha love letters from the school, those notes that come home with a form to fill in (with info you've given them ten times) and sign, notes that are generic with just the title changed.

Well, the lastest is about my lad's indoor soccer (he's representing the school at zone level again - third sport he's represented the school in this year ... not that I'm proud or anything ).
Anyway, it's for INDOOR soccer ... and they have to bring SUN BLOCK :eek:

Must play in some pretty crook gyms

Richard

[Bodgy]

What gets me about these forms, is not only the senseless repitition (as you note) but the design.

The forms will give you half a line to write your postcode, a whole line for your suburb, yet about 10 spaces for your name and less for your street address.

Would me an interesting lesson subject; design a sensible and well laid out form for parents permissions - cause yr schools not up to it.

[Stuart]

Cool - these are the people you want teaching your kids

[Ian Smith]

On the other side of the fence - I used to run the local Scout Group and the one that always got me in the returned permission slips to go camping was:

Can he/she swim? answer....NO
Is he/she allowed to go swimming? answer.... YES

Is the alternative to drowning at birth???

[Bob38S]

Don't blame the schoolies - ie the blokes/ladies at the pointy end.

It's not quite like Nuremburg - but they have to follow the orders from above. There are many discussion re the stupidity/frequency of the info requested but the result is always the same --
"No form and the kids miss out"
so the forms keep coming and [hopefully] the kids keep benefitting.
Regards,
Bob