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Color day by guest author Shannon
Monday, April 03, 2006
This is a variation on a common topic: dressing your children. However, this one has a bit of a zinger....dressing your children for public school. No, I'm not talking about whether or not your school votes on the whole "uniforms, or no uniforms" issue; what I'm talking about is the dreaded "Color Day."
What is "Color Day?" Color Day is any day where your first grader's teacher has decided that the next day (or certainly no farther out than 2 days from now) is "Yellow Day" to celebrate the coming of Spring; or perhaps it's Green Day, to honor St. Patrick. Or RED day, to recognize Valentine's Day....you get the idea. For us working Mommies, there is no denying the irritation and frustration that comes with the 8:30pm call of panic from a child's bedroom. "Mom! Mom! I forgot! Tomorrow is Yellow Day, and I don't have anything yellow!!!!!" (This is where the big black cloud appears over my head, steam emits from my ears, and I opt for silence as my only response to the panicked cries coming from the child's room.)
This, of course, she will not accept. "Mom!? Mom, did you hear me?! What are we going to do?!"
Now, in all fairness, I'm sure there was some sort of note that came home in the reams of school notices that I receive daily from my first grader. I see first hand why our forests are at risk. Seriously, though, what are these teachers thinking??? I can understand the green on St. Paddy's day, and the red on Valentine's day...and will plan accordingly when school shopping for the next eleven years, but YELLOW DAY FOR SPRING???? C'mon...like I have time to be sure that I have purchased something yellow, in my child's current size (no easy chore, given she grows about a size a week) in time for whatever day we make YELLOW DAY.
I wonder if these teachers understand the fights that ensue when I calmly (Ok, who am I kidding? Not so calmly) inform my child that her mother is tired, it's late, and there is no way on God's Earth that her mother is running out to the store to find something yellow for the next day. Can they hear the screaming child, crying over how she will surely be the ONLY child NOT to wear yellow? That not wearing yellow will undoubtedly isolate her at recess, cause her to eat alone in the cafeteria, be picked last for the dodgeball team....you get the drift.
I hate Yellow Day. And if any of you reading this are teachers, please, give a working mom a break! Keep it to the known "holidays."
by Erin *
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I hate green on St. Patty's day - the only thing I can ever find for my son is a Celtics uniform. When did Kelly Green clothing become so difficult to find??
Posted by: Kristin | April 3, 2006 05:04 PM
How true this is! My 2 y.o. daughter's daycare teachers had the nerve to schedule "wear some thing with teddy bears" and "wear your Elmo shirt," as if these were something in everyone's wardrobe (we don't do teddy bears, and while Elmo is cool, I just don't buy "licensed character" shirts).
She just moved up to a new classroom, and they are scheduling a whole week of "wear your P.J.'s". Ugh.
Posted by: apmzoo | April 3, 2006 08:04 PM
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