So I get a mass email from my kid’s school. They want volunteers for Career Week.

They want people to come in and tell the kids what they do.

:pause:

Yes, Good God, of course it is a temptation. But I got the kids’ grammar school experience to consider. Just because you have to face a tiger when it’s menacing your kids doesn’t mean that you have to let one out of its cage in order to create that scenario.

Moe Lane

PS: From private email:

3 thoughts on “So I get a mass email from my kid’s school. They want volunteers for Career Week.”

  1. Teacher: So Mr Lane what is that you do?
    Moe: my best to undermine everything you are trying to brainwash my kids with

    1. Fortunately, at this level we’re doing OK. My eldest kid’s teacher is fanatical about phonics, and I suspect that she’s a little pleasantly surprised to have parents as insistent on respecting teachers and doing homework as my wife and I are.

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