Fiona came home indignant the other day. She said, in an incredulous tone of voice, "Did you know some people didn't vote for Obama because he's black?".
While I am pleased that she is flabbergasted that it would even occur to someone to vote for a person based on the color of their skin, I am sad that she even has to be exposed to this idea.
We did have a nice little chat about the irrelevance of physical appearance vs. the actions of a person.
The reason for this outburst is that one of her friends made a declaration to Fiona that, in their school election, she didn't vote for Obama, because she doesn't like people with black skin.
Sigh.
In other news, Fiona also apparently mooned some of her friends at school and we got a little phone call about that. That's a big deal now. If you moon your friends on the playground, the playground supervisor talks to you, the nurse talks to you, the teacher talks to you, your MOM talks to you (look, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on!), and they call the parents of all the kids who were mooned. When the playground supervisor came up after school to talk to me and said an incident had occurred with Fiona on the playground, I immediately thought something had happened like she had taken someone out or something.
Anyway, it seems Fiona was handled okay and not shamed or anything. There apparently was no daring or bullying or anything weird going on. I guess it's a tricky line for the school. As to why she pulled down her pants in front of people, Fiona said she thought it would be funny. This is completely plausible to me.
Thursday we're meeting with a realtor, who has looked at our house, and hopefully after this meeting our house will be on the market for sale! Saturday we leave for just over a week for Houston/Galveston. I believe the goal is to find a house to buy in Friendswood. I'm going to visit the schools in Friendswood because they seem great online, but nothing replaces a personal inspection.
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That's a big deal now. If you moon your friends on the playground, the playground supervisor talks to you, the nurse talks to you, the teacher talks to you, your MOM talks to you (look, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on!), and they call the parents of all the kids who were mooned.Yikes! XD; Poor Fiona. We do live in hella cautious times, don't we?
Good luck on your house sale and house hunt! :)
omfg, I laughed my ass off that Fiona mooned everyone. In this day and age, I'm shocked they didn't put her in school therapy or something.
"I thought it would be funny." Hee hee. And you know, it probably was.
Ok, first I was all O.o then I was all BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I love this post.
"I thought it would be funny" Oh dear, how many times have we said that?
Ok, but seriously, all the calling and talking? I mean, yeah I get we should have a little chat that hey, taking off our clothes at school, maaaybe we shouldn't do that. But making it this big of a deal just brings too much attention to it.
Good luck with the realtors!! I hope you find something faboo!
Sounds funny to me!
I wonder what they would do at Marigold's school. Seeing as how they are so into the early potty learning thing that they force them to come in panties from 18 months when they start there and just merrily accept all the peeing on the floor that goes on as a learning experience, it is hard to imagine that there are not a lot of bare butts around, at least in the Toddler Community....
Friendswood sounds kind of serious...
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