Blank Sign In Sheet: Fill & Download for Free

My oldest daughter was in an IB program that was housed within a single wing of a much larger, regular Chicago public high school. Many parents try to avoid sending their child to a regular public high school in Chicago if possible, which is one of the reasons the IB program exists… it allows the school it’s attached to to inflate its graduation rate, ACT scores, attendance rate, etc…, all while physically isolating the advanced students in the building. Without that isolation, many of the parents of the advanced students would just take their children elsewhere… not risking their child’s safety and education by having them included with the regular school population.Yes, I know that sounds elitist. If you ever had to walk through a Chicago public high school when students were there, you’d understand why parents with options almost always opt their children out of that environment.Anyway, there were three times when I, as a parent, thought to myself “you can’t be serious…” when interacting with my child’s school.The school posted a “sign in sheet” for parent/teacher conferences that wasn’t a sign in sheet at all, but a statement of support for the school’s teachers’ union, who were renegotiating their contract that year.The school had a mandatory parent orientation night for parents of incoming freshmen. It was about 90 minutes long, and about 60 minutes of that was about ways to get free things from the government. Not just for our children or to benefit the school, but free things in general.The school refused to release my daughter’s report card to me until I filled out their free/reduced lunch request form. Except I didn’t want to request it. The form required a disclosure of income, which I did not want to give to the school, but they would not give me her report card until I signed the form. So I did just that… signed the form, but left all of the questions blank and wrote on the side “I do not want to be considered for this.”I should say that my interactions with my daughter’s teachers were almost always very pleasant, and my daughter got a great education and is now doing very well as a junior in college. But the administration at her high school… the whole system it seemed… was only designed with impoverished students in mind. Or students with issues at home. The administration seemed genuinely annoyed by my reluctance to even ask for government assistance, which we didn’t need and wouldn’t have qualified for anyway.

By far, the most appalling things I’ve seen other teachers do happened during my student teaching experience (that what teachers call their apprenticeship) at a Chicago public middle school. My cooperating teacher (mentor) was very nice to me, but she also happened to be the union rep for the school, and I witnessed a lot of her coworkers complaining about really petty things to her.Among the appalling behaviors there were:A teacher who refused to sharpen 25 #2 pencils for her students to take a standardized test, because those pencils were supposed to be sharpened beforehand. They were the official testing pencils that came with the other testing supplies. The entire class began their test 15 minutes late as the teacher, who had an electric pencil sharpener on her desk, sent the pencils to the office to be sharpened, because that was their job, not hers.An hour-long meeting with about 20 teachers. The entire meeting was to plan how each teacher was going to get their 15-minute breaks during standardized testing the next week. The possibility of working through a break, just once, to make everyone’s life easier, was never raised. At that point in my life, I was still working as a retail manager as well. We routinely worked 6–7 hours before getting our first break. These teachers… they were being asked to proctor a 2.5-hour-long test without a break, and they couldn’t do it. They weren’t even teaching then… just proctoring the test. Literally just being the adult in the room, making sure no one was cheating.Teachers who, knowing weeks ahead of time when their principals were going to observe their classes, showed up that day with amazing, small-group interactive lessons (what principals want to see), when literally every other day they just teach from the book. Although, I guess “showing off for the boss” isn’t too appalling. It was just shocking the first time I realized what was going on.A teacher who gave a test one day, then, the next day, asked the handful of students who passed the test to work on an unrelated billboard display in the hallway while she gave the rest of the class an easier test. That billboard display was something the teachers themselves were supposed to do. This teacher just outsourced her work to her students. One of those student’s parents wrote a well-worded email to the teacher and the principal complaining about that… complaining about his daughter spending a whole class period working on a billboard when she should have been learning. The principal apologized on behalf of the teacher, because the teacher didn’t see anything wrong with it.My oldest daughter went to a Chicago public high school. I didn’t teach there, but I was a teacher (at a different school) while she was a student there. At her school, some appalling things I witnessed were:A mandatory orientation for freshmen and their parents. Within 15 minutes of the orientation beginning in the auditorium, the students were ushered out of the room to tour the school and meet some teachers, while the parents sat through an hour-long presentation that was all about how to get free things from the government. It had little to do with anything we’d need to know to help our children, and everything to do with how to take advantage of every possible way to get money from the government.The school refusing to give me my daughter’s report card until I filled out a parent income level form. I finally signed the form, but left the income level blank (it’s none of their business), and they gave me her report card.Upon entering the school for report card pick-up (they did it in the evening, and all parents were expected to come into the school to get their child’s report card and talk to their child’s teachers if needed), being told that I needed to “sign in.” But there was no sign-in sheet. It was a sheet expressing support for the teachers’ union in their negotiations with the city at that time. That was three or four threatened teacher strikes ago now. This is why I’m wary of any statistics of support for the union from parents. I wonder how many parents were tricked or misguided into expressing that support.

You do WHAT THIS GUY TELLS YOU TO DO!Srinathprasanna N S's answer to What should I do if the interviewer gave me a blank paper and asked me to sign on that?For the lazy,Try to fold the blank paper in such a way that all its edges are at the center as in the picture below,Now try to sign in such a way that your signature spreads over all the edges at the center.