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Preschool Preview... The Saga Persists
At yet another preschool application event, I witnessed another in what will become an encyclopedia-length list of moments that, when pulled out of context, make New York City parents look insane.
This school's philosophy, like so many, is developmental and the director illustrated one her points about dealing with children doing battle with one another over toys by saying that they don't enforce "sharing" per se, but work on behavior that eventually lends itself to sharing and taking turns and all those things one wants one's kid to do spontaneously.
And then the floor opened up for questions and someone raised a hand asking: "I really like this idea of not sharing! Do they really have to take turns?"
If a journalist had been in the crowd, he or she would have been drooling with glee. It is almost certainly not the case that the parent in question was revealing a desire to raise an entirely selfish child who would refuse to let others play with his or her toys and who would grow up to cut in lines and steal taxis and parking spaces and be otherwise incredibly insufferable. And yet...
And yet the competition for preschool spots is so insane that it is hard not to look at all of one's rivals with a spot of jaundice, skepticism, and fear that if one is lucky enough to get into any of these places one will be surrounded by these people. I speak for myself, but judging from the way people were giving each other the once over, I'm not alone. And even accepting the hideous spirit of competition that makes everyone a little sharp or scared still doesn't keep me from wondering what people are thinking with the questions they ask and whether they are secretly revealing ugliness about themselves or actually being sort of interesting.
It's all a huge crapshoot anyway. Lots of schools set up literal lotteries that determine whether or not you can even apply, let alone attend. So is everyone crazy or is it just the effects of pressurized circumstance? I have a few more events to attend before I can really presume to be presumptuous about this business.
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