The school district here runs a program for all the local preschools where they bus the incoming kindergarteners in from their preschool, let them tour the kindergarten building and watch a video about bus safety, and then bus them back to their preschool. So that’s what Carrie’s class did today:
She was all excited about riding the bus this morning, but then told me she was scared. When I asked her what she was scared about, it turned out that she was scared that the bus would not be pink.
Um. Well, as a matter of fact, there are no pink school buses in our district as far as I’m aware. It turned out that the excitement of getting to ride a bus for the first time helped her get over the fact that the school bus was yellow.
Oh, and one of the preschool teachers mentioned to the parents that we have to sign a waiver if we want our child to wear a seat belt on the bus – something about how the bus driver can’t go back and undo all the kids’ seat belts in an emergency. But they brought a couple dozen 4 year olds on the bus and every last one of them immediately tried to put their seat belt on. So how do you tell your child, who has been indoctrinated from birth to never go anywhere in a moving vehicle without some sort of restraint, to not put their seat belt on?!? Crazy.
I imagine we’ll get more information on this next week at the parent kindergarten meeting.
You know, kindergarten is a scary word to type. My baby can’t seriously be old enough to be going to kindergarten and riding a bus, can she?