Pet Peeves

I am such an easy go lucky, loving life, signing in the rain, talk with animals, skip to my lou kind of gal I call it as I see it.

Pet Peeves...I have plenty of them, this is the first of many to come...

#1: SCHOOL NAME BADGES - plastic card with child's name, grade, bar code (for lunch account and library) and a picture of said child.

My theory is this: These little irritating thorns in my side badges were created by the public school system SO THEY SAY to help keep up with who the kids are, saves time in the lunch line and eliminates the library card. What this card does for me: I have to keep up with it, I have to remind children to attach it to them in the mornings, I have to listen to said children whine about loosing them and having to wear a temporary badge, I have to spend my computer cooking and cleaning time looking for the LOST badges. I have to beg one child not to touch the other child's badge...seriously how is this helping me? I think that someone at this school developed this ugly cute little badge to get back at the parents for SOMETHING, maybe we didn't sign the test with the F on it just right, maybe we fed our kids a bunch of caffeine before school, whatever...I want to know who came up with this idea.