Adventures In Bureaucratic B.S....

Well, I guess I now have come to the conclusion that the public school system in Dekalb County really sucks. Yes, I know school hasn't even started, but I have had such a hard time even getting to register D this week... The people running the "International Center" are such morons, that it makes me worry that the teachers will be also. First, I called last Friday to get an appointment to go there-- they told me that they were no longer taking appointments, and I should come on Tuesday first thing in the morning. Well, I got there Tuesday--and they told me that they were so busy on Monday, that they had started taking appointments again, and they couldn't see me until Wednesday at 11:30 am... Sooo, I arranged to take an early lunch today in order to take D up there to be "tested" for English as a second language classes (why test him? The boy has only been in the US for 2 months!! Of course he needs ESL classes!!). Well we got there at 11:30 and began to wait. And we waited, and waited, and waited.... Finally at 12:30, I asked what was taking so long (remember, I had an "appointment"). They said "well after he has been tested you have to wait to be called back to fill out the paperwork" I said, "when are they going to test him?" They said, "You mean he hasn't been tested yet? We have him marked off as having been tested.." I said, "Well he hasn't been tested. Can you go ahead and do that!?" So the dumb asses rushed him back to test him... Then we had to wait another 45 minutes to get his paperwork filled out... Of course, the paperwork took a painfully long time, and D was complaining constantly about wanting a hamburger. Finally, after over 2 hours we got to leave. And get this, I still have to go to his school to actually register him in it! A bunch of bureaucratic B.S.