No, my two year old didn't poop in the bathtub. I made him wear little swimmers just in case.
My son came home from his second day of kindergarten and told us about the assembly he had at school. They talked about how the kids needed to help raise money for the school so they were doing a magazine subscription drive and they had cool things you can win if you sell lots of magazines. They had the actual prizes and showed them to the kids.
My son came home and told us how much he wants to win the prizes. I read the documentation and this is a school-sanctioned event to raise money for certain extra programs the school does. Some of them are not even for my son - like sixth grade camp.
I am furious about this. My son is six years old and very impressionable. I remember selling candles and magazines and things for my school when I was a kid but I don't remember being shown the actual prizes I could win for selling the most. And I don't remember being asked to do it when I was six!
This is wrong on so many levels. We pay a lot of taxes to be in this school district and get the benefit of the schools. Why does my six year old son need to be bribed by his school to sell magazines to parents and relatives if I'm already paying more in taxes than many districts? And why are they wasting school time talking about selling magazines instead of teaching my son? If the school needs money for some special program, let the parents know - don't waste school time trying to get my kid to guilt me into buying a bunch of magazines.
Even if they sent home the booklet and asked us to help out by buying magazines, I wouldn't have been so offended. To approach my child with this is unacceptable.
I don't know what to do about it. My son just started school - and his mom's making trouble already! I'll cool off over the weekend and then maybe reconsider sending out emails to various people like the school board, my state senator and representative, etc.
If this is what it's like to have children in school, my poor son is in trouble. I'm not good at letting things go.
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