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A walmart and PTO and organized sports rant...beware the anger is flowing this morning!!! Bear in mind, I come from a Waldorf background and whatever you personally feel about that is fine. We Waldorf kids like to take things slow and easy. Like, don't push your 3 yr old to learn to read OK? She's not ready! I'm pulling my kid out of preschool because they don't want to keep her back (budget cuts) and I feel she isn't ready-socially not even so much academically. I'm sorry, but my child will not suffer because of your budget cuts. How about pay to play sports?? There have to be other ways to work the budget-education needs to come first! And the older kids? Let them be kids for Gods sakes. Walking into the middle school and seeing fifth grade girls with makeup on and a cellphone is not what I consider being a kid. What are these parents thinking? When my children come home from school they play outside, they play with the turtles and frogs out by the pond, they help us in the garden, they play on the swingset, they turn the compost, they haul sticks with the tractor. Ya know? They don't come home and watch five hours of TV and plug into the computer or their DSs and call their boyfriends on their cellphones. Why the rush to grow up? There is a mother here who has two girls, twins. She is apparently training them to be Olympic figure skaters. They're 9. They get up at 5am to go practice two hours before school. Practice all week and then competitions of some kind on the weekends. ????? Now, I realize that by putting my children into a public school environment that things will be different than homeschoolers or alternative schoolers. But that doesn't mean I like it. I think the majority of the women I've met here are catty and delusional. I'm sorry but it's true. I've made very few real connections (Thank God for LLL) and it makes me so sad. I've tried to attend PTO meetings and functions because I want to be involved and have a say in my children's futures, but it's run by a clique and they are less than friendly to outsiders. I've pissed of many people with my outspoken politics and honestly I don't have to agree with everyone, really it's OK to have differences and to discuss them as adults. The town selectman has put people on these boards- Economic Development, Board of Finances, Planning and Zoning, that will directly profit from this monstrous 160,000 sq ft big box store. Do you know that Walmart repeatedly violates environmental code and just pays the $5million fine and then turns around to do it again? We taxpayers bleed money to cover health insurance for these employees because they don't earn fair wages and they aren't covered by Walmart's insurance policies. It's ludicrous. I've been on the property where they plan to build.There are vernal pools, there are osprey nests, there are bricks with slave fingerprints on them from the 1600's. This is not historic property??? Come on people-WAKE UP!! It's called a concrete jungle and you live in one. It doesn't have to be this way.

Orgainzed sports...my girls play soccer. The program is run by a corrupt bunch of hooligans who could care less about building our kids up. It's all about the competetion and who can run fastest and who has the footwork and who is a friend of the coach's family and blah blah blah. I can't fucking stand it! I'm so sick of these people! Where are all the good people? Are there any here because I sure as hell can't find them. When we get together with firends, we like to have a couple homegrown beers with a fire in the pit, kids running around nekkid and happy, free. When these women get together with friends they go out to bars and clubs dressed up like hookers and hitting on men (married women) until 4 am. What the hell?

Anyway, rant over. I'm sorry-I had to get that out. I'm having a hard time here lately, can you tell?