Field Trip
Dude. I just got a call from my son’s school.
His class is going on a field trip today to a place called Color Me Mine, which is where you can paint ceramics. The kids are painting tiles that will be placed in the second hand-made bench that was auctioned off at the school fundraiser back in March. The bench with inlaid tiles painted by the first graders and crafted by a first-grade father was the highest bid item at the auction. $7,900 for a bench! Well the auctioneer did something tricky that night. He secured an agreement from the losing bidder: The first grade (and the first-grade father who crafted it) would make a second bench if the bidder would match the winning bid. Big bucks for the school!
So the kids are off today to fulfill their part of the bargain by making another set of tiles. I knew that. I signed the permission slip and everything.
The wacky part of this story is this: The call from school was made to inform me that an anonymous donor had paid for limousine transportation for the children for their field trip. No mommies and daddies will be driving them today. Twenty-nine kids and a suitable number of adults are piling into limos right now. Apparently, this is sufficiently atypical that the school administrator wanted the parents to know what was going on.
What a way to end the school year for a bunch of 7-year-olds!
May 21, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I am recoiling in horror (and jealousy) as I read this.
WTF? Way to stay on message Waldorf school.
May 21, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Hippy school, you’re doing it wrong.
May 21, 2009 at 1:05 pm
LOL! Perhaps it’s a hand-made organic beeswax limo.
Still, a little limo never hurt anyone.
May 21, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I think it’s funny and super fun. I suspect the party who bought the bench also provided the transportation. I don’t see any harm in it. It’s not like we’ll start driving to McD’s for lunch in a limo.
May 21, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Will they be back in time for lunch. We sent him with a burrito-coupon today.
May 21, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Yep, he’ll get a burrito as usual.
May 21, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Lucky kids! Although, really, limos should be reserved for drunk people.
May 22, 2009 at 2:51 pm
All I can think is that this phone call was so you would actually believe your son when he came home and said “But Moooooooooooooom, it really was a limouseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!”