As I've already noted, Rachel has taken to pitching fits in the morning when Drew and I drop her off at school. Today, at my suggestion, Drew asked her why she got so upset when Mommy or Daddy leave.
She replied, "I don't like a lot of kids. I like a little kids, but not a lot."
Drew asked, "Why don't you like a lot of kids?"
Rachel answered, "Because there's a lot of screaming and I don't like loud noises."
You can imagine how distressed this conversation made me. Drew went on to explain to Rachel that she'll have to deal with lots of loud kids in life and that she'll have to learn how to tune out the noise. And that even if the teachers don't rush up to her when she starts crying after we drop her off, they sill care about her.
I'm not mollified. Is this what we're leading our daughter into? Overcrowded classrooms with screaming, noisy children where very little learning gets done? Why does she have to live with that scenario? Why can't funding be adequate to hire more teachers and keep classrooms smaller? Why do we insist our kids get used to intolerable situations when, really, we should be fighting day and night to ensure the situation isn't intolerable in the first place?
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