So Soupo’s on Spring Break now. He’s all of five years old and hip deep in pre-K, and he has Spring Break. Like he needs it.
I’m sure Miss Beth needs it. A dozen four and five year olds four days a week. Twice that since she has a morning class and an afternoon class. Yeah, she needs a Spring Break. That, and a shot of bourbon big enough to float the Edmond Fitzgerald.
I’m thinking long and hard about sending him off to school anyway. Self-directed learning. All very Montesori. He might come up with cold fusion. You never know. He might just come up with “You can’t blow bubbles out your butt no matter how much gum you swallow.” More likely, but I’m still hoping for the cold fusion. It has a greater market value.
Since it is his Spring Break, I’m thinking, since he can’t actually get into his class, so the self-directed learning could turn ugly if he experiments with butt-bubbles, I might just send him down to Ft. Lauderdale. Overnight Fed-Ex, with lots of holes in the box.
Can you imagine? Ft. Lauderdale inundated with the pre-K crowd? Not that it would be so much different that the college scene. Just more juice boxes and way more nudity.
-Rue.
{{{{Rue}}}}!!! Yesterday just wasn’t the same without your morning post. I figured you were in a chocolate-bunny-induced coma.
Please don’t send the kindergarteners to Florida!! Bad enough we’re overrun with senior citizens who can’t drive and tourists who can’t drive and teenagers who can’t drive… my point is, we don’t need more people here who can’t drive.
Anyway, glad you’re back. You may entertain me now. Carry on.
Where is it written that once you get out of college, you don’t get a Spring Break? Oh sure, I get my two weeks of vacation a year, and if I manage to stay here ten years without committing any felonious faux-pas’, I get that mythical third week.
I guess I’m just jealous. My wife is a high-school teacher, and in two weeks she get her spring break. Than about two months after that she gets the summer off. And still gets a paycheck twice a month! Waaah!
I think there ought to be a mandatory Spring Break for engineers. Think about it, several thousand engineers invading Ft. Lauderdale. It’d be just like the pre-K crowd, but with less juice boxes (do they make beer boxes? they should) and (hopefully) less nudity. Roving packs of structural types would cruise the strip commenting on the shoddy design of the local bridges. Mischievous electrical engineers would rewire the power grid for comic effect.
jeez, what’s up with this? i’m already done with my spring break. today i’m back to school after a measly 5 days off. many of my friends had 10 days off!
My Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] went back to school today after having 6 days off. Her last day of school is May 21. Next year starts Aug 6 or something.
The Girl, The Now Blue-Haired Boy, and The Little Guy were off for a long weekend, and they’ll be off the entire week of the 15th. I am not amused. They will destroy my house and force me to buy 300 dollars worth of food. And thats just their friends!!
In grade-school, Spring Break either meant “Great, now go work on the beach for a week” in my earlier years, or “Great, now you can work a full day on the farm instead of just in the evenings.” when I was in High School.
Even when I was in college I had at least two jobs, if not three so that I could afford to keep going there.
Nowadays, Spring Break means, “Hey, look at all these pretty post-cards at my desk at work.”
Spring break? Eh, it’s overrated. I get a stupid spring break every year, and haven’t had a good one yet. Somehow, early March in the Northeast just doesn’t cut it, but I have no money to go anywhere. The heck of it is, when I have a job and will have money to go somewhere, I’ll get all of 10 days off a year. Whoop-de-do. Can we establish a ‘saving’ program, where I just don’t have spring break at all during college, but I get to cash in the chips and go on spring break, oh, in like five years from now?
I just had spring break at the beginning of March, but I’m very much in need of another one. Not because I don’t want to be at school, mind you, but because I need a respite from my psychotic roommate. Thank God I only have to wait five weeks until summer vacation starts. [sub]for Simetra: Life is sooo hard…[/sub]
Personally, I find the thought of a five year old with knowledge of atomic fusion somewhat unsettling. If he hooks up with some six year old who’s developed a missile-based delivery system, we’re all in trouble.
