York Parent-Teacher Conferences

This is a major clusterfuck.

first, the on-line registration crapped out on Thursday, when registration was to begin. Emails went out letting us parent know that on-line registration would be rescheduled for Sunday at 6:00pm. So here we are, my wife and I, trying like hell to get in on Sunday evening. Two computers, one for each child. Here's what we get.

Girl-student - - log in, get to her teachers, click on a time, get an error message. Try to use the back button: error message. Long pause. Re-try the button. More Microsoft error. So, go back to log in again. Manage to do this, get back to the teachers' schedules - and two of the teachers are already completely filled.

So try with another teacher. Click on the time - and get an error message.

Okay, fine, the system's hosed. Call the school.

Why no, we're told, everything's working just fine. There will be a delay in the response, due to the amount of people trying to register. Please be patient, and keep trying. oh, and have a nice day, and thanks for calling (yes, she did say this).

So we try again. This time, we can't even get to the portal to get the kid's teachers. At 6:15 we give up.

Thanks, York, for making it not only difficult, but stressful, annoying, and frustrating to talk to the teachers about how the kids are doing. You've done a fine job of demonstrating how not to handle an on-line registration. You constantly talk about how it's important for the parents to work with the teachers, then make it impossible to do so.

I'll be so damned glad when they graduate. This is fucked up beyond belief.