For This I Went to College?

[madrobins]

Sarcasm Girl, in an attempt to improve her GPA a bit, is trying to enroll in a Poly Sci course at the Community College. Of course, since she's up to her hips in New! Improved! Semester! and Mock Trial and stuff like that, I'm trying to sort it all out. She had to take a placement test before she could submit her application (which she did) but the placement test results didn't come out until after the application deadline. (This is not a squirrelliness on the part of the school--the kid decided to do this at pretty much the last possible moment.) So she went to the class, impressed the instructor (well, of course) and tried to enroll in the class yesterday, only to be told that she needed an Add/Drop form. Instructor hadn't mentioned it (or she hadn't registered it). She was given a copy of the form by the Admissions clerk. I emailed the instructor and asked what we needed: an Add/Drop "sticker" with a particular number on it. Instructor gives me the number. I write it on the form, take it in to Admissions. No, we need the sticker. The instructor won't be at school until Saturday, for the course, at which point the Add/Drop period will be over.

So this afternoon I'm going back to the campus and asking the department chair for her signature or sticker. If/when I get the thing, all should be well and I should be able to enroll the child in the class. It's been some years since I had to deal with educational bureaucracy (and at that point I was working in the bureaucracy, which did not blind me to its you-can't-get-theah-from-heah tendencies). The fundamental things have not changed.

ETA: I have fit the battle and the kid is registered. That's another two hours of my life I will need a coupon for.