An excellent argument in favor of Home Schooling

[captain_slinky]

Last night was the "Ice Cream Social" at Molly's new school! She'll be going to the public school just around the corner from us because I can walk her there every morning AND it's one of the top-rated elementary schools in the State! We had considered doing the whole Home School/Co-Op School thing for a while but then thought well hey since our Tax Dollars are already paying for a top-notch school that's right around the corner? Yeah, we'll go with that. Kind of like having a Whole Foods Grocery Store right next to an IHOP... I *could* go and buy all the stuff to make a nutritious meal for my family, sure, but the Rooty-Tooty-Fresh-N-Fruity is just so darned tasty and they'll make it for me AND I've got a coupon.

So this "Ice Cream Social". It was a pretty huge event where every kid in the school and their parents were invited to come, have some ice cream and go check out their new classroom. I volunteered to help, they had me scooping ice cream for the kids. I wore my bright yellow "Doctor Pooh" T-Shirt (Winnie The Pooh dressed-up as Doctor Who) which came in handy in many different ways! The PTA folks were able to locate me easily ("Just look for the bright ball of yellow in the crowd"), many kids came up to me saying "POOH! I like Pooh!" But most of all, it was a Nerd Magnet.

Three different Nerd Parents came up to me to say that they loved my shirt and then spark up conversations about how Nerdy they had raised their own kids :) We discovered that Molly has at least two Doctor Who fans in her kindergarten class, and one of them sits RIGHT NEXT TO HER! She doesn't seem that excited, but Crystal and I are STOKED!

But then came the tragedy; The incident that ALMOST made us grab Molly up right then and there and start her on Home Schooling.

We went to warn Molly's new teacher about how she was going to have a little gaggle of Nerds in her class that were going to be playing Doctor Who and pretending to be Daleks and whatnot. The teacher blankly stared at us and... and she... I can't believe it.

She stared blankly at us and said "I don't know what a Doctor Who is".

MOLLY'S TEACHER DOESN'T KNOW WHAT OR WHO DOCTOR WHO IS?!?!?!

I think a sternly worded letter to the School Board is in order! How can we let common Muggles like this lady go around teaching our kids with her antiquated notions of strictly linear time streams?!?!?

Oh, and I also volunteered to work in the school Library this year, that makes me very happy :)

Comments

[thehobbit.livejournal.com]

There is only one thing that fixes this.

Time travel.

Duh.

[aurora77]

That's what I was thinki...HEY! You read my comment in the future and traveled back and posted it! As soon as I find the keys to my TARDIS, you are so in trouble, missy!

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

You should have some Jack Chick style tracts printed to evangelize Doctor Who

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

OMG EPIC!!! And each one can have a page in the back with quotes from Heinlein and Asimov quoted as scripture! I could even just re-write the existing Chick Tracts and use his artwork!

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

See, they're spending your tax dollars the wrong way. They should be duying the DVD sets for all new teachers to watch before the school starts...

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

It could have been worse. She could have started telling you what a bad influence science fiction is. You have to give her credit; at least she was honest about her ignorance. Odds are, she'll Google the reference.

Kudo's on volunteering at the school library. Think of all the young minds to be warped. (oops...i mean...INFLUENCED)

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Although, no Lord of the Rings before 7th grade I think... when I tried in 4th grade I bogged down in the 3rd volume. Was smooth sailing when I tried again in 7th, not sure why. My only guess is that it was an age thing - I also couldn't really do Andre Dumas until later too.