http://mommybrain.net/2006/03/08/i-hope-they-have-a-spot-for-a-class-clown/ It happens to the best of us. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://mommybrain.net/2006/03/08/i-hope-they-have-a-spot-for-a-class-clown/#comment-8 Mommybrain » Blog Archive » And I Didn’t Even Volunteer at a Bake Sale Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:24:02 +0000 http://amymuller.com/?p=9#comment-8 [...] So I wrote a couple weeks ago about our family visit to the “little slice of heaven” school that I was hoping to get Quinn into for preschool in the fall. The application/thesis writing/ interview process was certainly far more rigorous than anything I underwent when applying to University. But this is preschool in San Francisco. This is not child’s play. Well, I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up post because we received our notification in the mail while Thor & I were at SxSW last week. Quinn was neither accepted nor rejected. He was waitpooled. It’s like pre-school purgatory. I felt both the sting of rejection and the relief of knowing our bank account would be spared for at least another year. Pragmatically I understood that they’ve got certain demographic requirements to fulfill, age and genders to balance, siblings who take priority, only so many spaces, etc. etc. etc. But I couldn’t help wondering “What was wrong with us? What was wrong with Quinn? Can’t they see how LUCKY they would be to have him in their school??? Were they not spellbound by his beguiling charms?” So I convinced myself that I wasn’t that impressed with their preschool program anyway. That all changed today. [...] [...] So I wrote a couple weeks ago about our family visit to the “little slice of heaven” school that I was hoping to get Quinn into for preschool in the fall. The application/thesis writing/ interview process was certainly far more rigorous than anything I underwent when applying to University. But this is preschool in San Francisco. This is not child’s play. Well, I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up post because we received our notification in the mail while Thor & I were at SxSW last week. Quinn was neither accepted nor rejected. He was waitpooled. It’s like pre-school purgatory. I felt both the sting of rejection and the relief of knowing our bank account would be spared for at least another year. Pragmatically I understood that they’ve got certain demographic requirements to fulfill, age and genders to balance, siblings who take priority, only so many spaces, etc. etc. etc. But I couldn’t help wondering “What was wrong with us? What was wrong with Quinn? Can’t they see how LUCKY they would be to have him in their school??? Were they not spellbound by his beguiling charms?” So I convinced myself that I wasn’t that impressed with their preschool program anyway. That all changed today. [...]

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