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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So I get to pre-school to pick up the (Not So) Tiny Slothrop yesterday, and he and the rest of the kids whose parents don't love them as much as the parents of the kids who got their earlier at at a couple of tables, playing with something like silly putty, only it's stickier. Which is fine, and not really the point. The point is, the teachers are just blasting an Alvin & the Chipmunks Xmas record, apparently as background noise (emphasis on the noise part).
What's up with that? Is this a psy ops technique that they've picked up from the military? I thought it was bizarre, but didn't say anything to the teachers, partly because I wasn't sure that I could yell loud enough.
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It's a passive aggressive thing. The parents who pick the kids up earlier (the ones who love their kids more) set a subconscious outside bar to "end of day" in the minds of the teachers. Anyone who comes in after the time the majority of kiddies go are "late." The teachers' day is done and the music gets blasted so they don't have to listen to the kids during "overtime."
At least that's my take on it. My daycare center is open until 6:30 pm. But show up at 6:29.59 and you get handed a thirsty kid whose diaper hasn't been changed since 5 pm by the last remaining employee, who is shutting the lights off behind you as the door hits you in the ass on your way out. The process breaks down after 5 pm. Kids of all different classrooms left there by mean parents after 5 pm get combined into little groups of other unloved kids until there is just one, small group of the least loved kids, of which mine is always a part. At 6:00 pm, this group participates in what I call the "Walk of Shame". Classrooms are closed and the leftover ragtags are made to march in single file up to the front foyer of the center, where they wait for their neglectful parents to arrive.
None of this bothers me in the slightest because the kids don't care a whit. They get to run wild in the halls and rearrange the hall furniture. It's the best part of the day for them. Anarchy rules. The Walk of Shame kids are the coolest kids there.
Okay, so what was the question again?
