Parent Project Permission Slip: Fill & Download for Free

This was my mom’s moment. It was with one teacher, not the whole school.Last year there was a field trip to a local amusement park for physics day. At physics day, you compete in a number of competitions all based on physics (egg drop, build a roller coaster prototype, etc.) It was required to go and to participate in a certain number of these competitions. To encourage people, my teacher made turning in the permission slip an assignment (100 points), and as with all assignments, if it was late, points were taken off.It was a few days before the permission slip was due and I had left it on the dining table. My mom was kind enough to bring it and went to the office to pay the fee (roughly $10 for the bus. There were ways for it to be covered for students unable to pay, especially considering that it was required). I told her when I asked her to bring the slip specifically to bring it to me, because the teacher told us to turn the slip directly in to her. The office, however, told my mom that they would take it and bring it to Mrs. Gray (the physics teacher). She left it with them, and thought nothing more if it.Sometime after the slip was due, I checked my grades and saw that I had a shockingly low grade in physics, seeing as my project for physics day was already completely done. This was partly because I’d forgotten to submit my daily progress for a couple of days, and partly because my permission slip, a 100 point assignment, was put in as a zero.I asked Mrs. Gray about it, telling her that my mom had paid the money and turned the permission slip into the office. She asked me what the directions were on Canvas (a website/online tool used by our school for assignments, missed days of notes, etc.) She wanted us to submit a photo of the permission slip and proof of payment (either a receipt or a signature on the permission slip from the office) and THEN she wanted us to hand it in to HER not the office. She wasn’t wrong, the directions were all there, but the office wasn’t aware of them, and thus, gave my mom incorrect information (remember I told her to bring the permission slip to me, not the office).Mrs. Gray told me that my permission slip should still be in the office, as she had returned all the ones she got from the office back to the office.It wasn’t there.I told her that and she got me a new permission slip. I asked her if it would be late even though it was turned in on time earlier. She said yes, because I didn’t follow the directions, I was going to lose points.I texted my mom all of this and she was PISSED. She drove down to the school and explained the situation the same way that I had. My teacher explained that I had chances to fix it before it was due. My mom argued that I didn’t know it was a problem until then and therefore couldn’t fix it, which was also true, besides, either Mrs. Gray or the office had lost the permission slip and I had no control over that. I also had no control over my mom turning in the permission slip at the office rather than bring it to me. Mrs. Gray would not step down. She was going to mark my points down no matter what. My mom was furious and after quite some time going back and forth she was shaking and struggled to sign the form. I brought it to Mrs. Gray, who said some bullshit about the 100 points not having much of an impact on my grade anyways.My mom ended up emailing the principal explaining the entire situation and asking for an appointment, Cc-ing Mrs. Gray. He emailed back and said that it sounded mostly like an error of the office (probably because literally no other teacher does field trips or permission slips this way, and she has never done them this way in the past). I checked my grade before my mom met with the principal and saw that she had put the full 100 points in (and it had brought my grade up by a letter grade or a half letter grade, I can’t remember exactly what it was).My mom ended up cancelling the appointment, I got first place in my physics day competition (Demo Design, basically I had to teach/demonstrate a physics concept and I only won because of the uniqueness of my topic: the Cheerios Effect), after that year the teacher moved back to Michigan and took my ex-best friend (ex for unrelated reasons) with her and my mom still hates both of them.The end.

It is in school. Anytime a teacher wanted to film or photograph school activities/projects that students participated in had to have copies of signed permission slips from their parents.

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