Today's winner....

Ah- today's winner on crazy parent email/call.

Let me set the background info for you first.

I run a 3 week technical summer camp. We take the students on trips, often working it out w/ CEOs to get behind the scene tours on how their technology works.
Here is one of the parents responses in regards to our field trips:

"If you sent my kids to natural places in Florida similar to Ocala National
Forest, which seem to be disappearing, rather than Theme Parks which are
appearing, I might be more interested. Nature-deficit disorder is alive and
growing in our children. We need gifted adults to help fight this growing
problem, not to bring us more theme parks.
Thanks anyway,"

So joy. Let me add to my list of ailments Nature-deficit disorder, which apparently triggers my Tourette Syndrome by the way.

So I explained to her the academic componet of the program (duh) and how we have discussed the possibility of trips to nature parks however - as a committee, we all felt it did not align with the academic component of our program- nor did the committee want to take 3o high schoolers during the hottest month of the year to a place that offers no shelter when there is an 85% chance of rain each day.

Hmmm... I wonder if I can get a tuition waiver for my new disorder......