I’m connecting some seemingly unrelated phenomenon lately about success and a potential relationship to genetics. It didn’t start with, but became most noticeable lately, a trip to pick up Riley from Kindergarten.
Things you need to know in advance: I live in a reasonably well off area. People around here are often stay at home mom, in-ground pool, luxury car, dinner party people. Also, the public schools are just good enough to at least get kids started before moving to a private middle school. And being public schools, for some reason or other, they have a lot of rules.
I could probably write a wholly separate post on the topic of these rules, but I’ll attempt to summarize. At some point long ago the rule was simply “Bring your child to school and drop them off carefully.” As time progressed and people failed to grasp the basic common sense skills that are required to process the word “carefully”, the school has found it necessary to enumerate the many ways in which parents must be careful. It’s a perplexing situation because while the simple rule above implies all that seems necessary, the forced enumeration of rules seems to open up loopholes in common sense, which bring me to this recent discovery.
One of the myriad of rules for picking up children at kindergarten describes a manner in which cars may proceed around the driveway loop designated for this purpose. The rule is this: “When your child has entered the car, you must wait for all of the cars in front of you to leave before you attempt to leave.” For safety’s sake, this makes complete sense, such that you would not run over any children getting into cars who are slower than yours. But it allows a loophole.
The driveway is shaped like a lowercase cursive letter “l”. You enter the long drive, park along the edge to wiat for your kid, then after everyone in front of
