Every year right before summer school holidays roll in, we have to either 1) fill out forms, bring proof of residency and devote at least an hour to re-register the kids for the following school year OR 2) we bring “necessary” proofs etc and spend over two hours filling up the forms at school. At a time when we could be sitting down at the dinner table at home.

If you have never registered a kid for school because they are too young or you don’t have any (yet) oh I envy you!

For proof of residency, you need MORTGAGE/LEASE statement (original), a current (but of course) UTILITY BILL, driving license/state identification card.

In addition, you also need child’s birth certificate and social security number. In this particular district, you CANNOT provide a passport although you have to provide social security number AND birth certificate AND driving license of parents to obtain this document. Not only that, there is a photo of said child on the passport!

Well of course they photocopy these SAME DOCUMENTS you provide them EACH AND EVERY YEAR. Not only that, they KEEP these documents in the child’s folder. These folders GROW each year.

So what, you say? Not like they are storing these folders in my house, right? Can you think of all the unnecessary time, effort and money that are WASTED EACH YEAR? Don’t the teachers and school administrators have anything better to do? WE parents have better things to do. Come on!

Why can’t the school district just issue a reminder to everyone who have moved to update their addresses each year?

This really irks me because it is wasteful behaviour. Utterly unnecessary. Why are our tax dollars spent in this manner?

So much for saving resources.