Blowing my Daughter's Future Out my Nose

Dear Ms. Choir Instructor:

I was looking at my daughter's grades online and saw that she is missing an assignment from August. I asked her about it and she got it out of her back pack. It is an orange student info sheet. I remember, vaguely, her coming home with that in the beginning of the school year and telling me that it was MY homework assignment to do. I assumed she was joking and told her that was too bad. I wasn't enrolled in her classes and was not required to do homework for them. Imagine my surprise that SHE was given an F (0/10) for me not completing MY assignment in a class I didn't take.

I am a single mother of three girls. Between my full time job, cooking, shopping, cleaning, and shuffling them to their 94 (if they stay healthy) doctor's, dentists, counselor's and orthodontist's appointments a year, I do not have the time or inclination to complete homework assigned by a 6th grade teacher.

My daughter will have the Student Information Sheet, completed by me and turned in by her, on Wednesday. Please do not penalize my daughter for an assignment that wasn't hers to complete. And for the record, my daughter does not have the authority to tell me what I have to do, even if her teacher "assigns" it.

In the future, if you need information that can't be obtained from the records the school already has, just ask. Please do not call it homework and fail my child for not providing it.

Sincerely,

Renee

P.S. - (This was not included in the actual letter to the teacher, but should have been.) I see where she did not get extra credit for providing Kleenex for your classroom. Of course it didn't say how much extra credit that would have been. Seriously, what is the price of an A? One box of tissues, a 4 pack, a case? Can I just write a check for $2.09 and she can "earn" enough points to get the all A honor-roll? I will admit I am not musically inclined, but what does this teach them? Are we sure it is something they should be learning?