Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

More Nursery Skewl

Heaven forfend that this blog contain much more nursery-school commentary, but my friend Jordan - she of the best photo of the month - sent a link to a post on Babble about the depravity of preschool admissions in London, and I must blog it:

Would you schedule a C-section in order to ensure your child will get one of 5 slots a school offers newborns each month? Would you fill out preschool application forms with an epidural stuck in your back? Would you start calling preschools at 5 weeks pregnant (essentially, as soon as the stick turns blue)? Or phone your desired school twice a day, everyday, for six months? How about sending flowers each week until your child is accepted? Or refusing to leave the preschool building until your child is secured a spot?

(Alas, the full Wall Street Journal article is only available to subscribers - the Type A's who would probably go to those lengths to get their tykes into nursery school.)