Twinkle: School Decisions

So, y'all know that Mr. Twinkle and I are in the market for a good elementary school.

And it's shocking because she's a public school teacher, but Fun Sink seems almost offended that C*** (premier private prep school in the Highlands) is not a front runner. She was dismayed when we weren't that excited after the cocktail hour/tour we attended there. Tonight at the Hanukkah party, an aunt whose grandchildren went there was singing its virtues, and dismissing montessori as hippie nonsense. And we know that C*** a great school--we don't dispute that.

It was nice when we toured it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. We went to a cocktail hour there, and we knew pretty much everyone there, from the parent working the checkin table to the director of admissions to the first grade teaching assistant to the guy tending bar to the tour guide to most of the parents. It's not that we don't like C***--it's just that we really like montessori, and we feel like it's a good fit for A.

Fun Sink was hovering around during the conversation with Mr. Twinkle's aunt, trying to listen to what we were saying. She heard me say that the head of school's goal is to get some farm animals for the kids to care for (great moment for her to walk up and eavesdrop--just when I was bringing the goats and chickens into the conversation). I feel like Mr. Twinks and I have to defend it all the time, to everyone in Mr. Twinks' family. And if we decide to send her there, it's just going to get worse.

Part of me wonders if Fun Sink has been so nice recently so I'll trust her when she voices her opinion about schools. Because I can see her stopping at nothing to get our kids into the school she thinks they need to be in, or to prevent us from making what she perceives to be an educational mistake.

I don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to be interesting to see what Fun Sink pulls out of her bag of tricks to manipulate us.