Reports from the Field

Every day Benjamin comes home from daycare with a written report from his teachers.  They are mostly designed to show us the wonderful and multifaceted educational experience he experiences during the day.  Much of the report is xeroxed and applies to all students in the class (e.g. activities like "Today we attempted to pull up our pants after diapering"), but there are also personal notes about his eating, sleeping, and pooping, which is good because we really just want to know if he ate his lunch, took a nap, and if he injured himself in some way.

His current teacher in the First Steps room is Ms. Naya, and she has the frustrating habit of writing "Ben had a good day today" on the reports.  Every day.  We know damn well he's not really having a good day every day.  There's no way a large group of toddlers is not constantly on the edge of barbaric, Lord-of-the-Flies-like chaos. Sometimes Ms. Naya will actually tell us things when we pick him up, like, he didn't nap, or he was bitten three times by one of the other kids.  Still, the report says ""Ben had a good day today."  It's daycare propaganda, pure and simple.