Today was a half day at the 10 year old’s Fairfax County public school and the plan for the day in her class was to have a pajamas and movie party.  Teachers are not allowed to show movies to their classes in the FCPS system unless said movies are on a grade-specific County approved list.

The gel’s teacher had wanted to show the class Matilda, but discovered that it had not been approved for 5th graders, but only high school kids.  The gel, who is quite fond of this particular movie, called me a few minutes ago to complain, saying, “Jeesh, they’re perfectly willing to teach us about sex but they won’t let us near Roald Dahl!”

Heh, indeed.

I know one thing in which she’s getting an education at any rate: the mysteries of the educational bureaucracy.