To you who got the number 1 slot in the school registration last Saturday, congratulations!
While the rest of us were still in deep slumber, you slipped away at the crack of dawn, went to your child’s soon-to-be nursery school and fell in line, surprising even the oldest of the security staff. As far as they know, no one has ever come that early before for enrolment.
You must really want that AM slot, huh?
You must have your reasons of course, just like all the other 40 or so parents in there. While they fought tooth and nail (I’m not sure how ugly it went but poor teachers…) for the much coveted AM slot, you must have calmly made your way out, smiling smugly with the thought “the early bird sure catches the worm!” at the tip of your tongue.
You are quite famous already, if you must know. In all the conversations that I’ve overhead, there was always this dialogue:
Have you heard? The one who got the first number fell in line at 4am!
What?! Really?? And here I thought I was early already!
Why though?
Why did you have to set the bar up so high? Yours will now be the standard time that all the next batches of parents will have to live up to just to secure the much coveted slot. When asked about what time they can line up for enrolment, the guards and the admissions people will now have something new to say, “If you must know, a parent had come here as early as 4AM to line up.” And that alone will send shivers down the new parent’s spine.
I’m just glad that I didn’t have to hear it.
I wonder if I’ll ever meet you and get the chance to be parent-friends with you, 4AM parent/guardian. I wonder if our kids will be friends. I wonder what you’ll think of those of us who came at the end of the line.
Anyway, should our paths not cross, I will surely be on the lookout for the ultimate stage mom or stage dad in school because I’m positive that it’s going to be you. 🙂
– Number 53
OMG OA! nakakairita nga siya! we had to line up at 1 AM back in college para sure na sure na pero naman, we really needed that class at graduating kami that sem. but this is nursery! hhmm, baka dapat draw lots na lang 😀
Hehehe, super competitive na yata ang mga parents nowadays.
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
Wow grabe. And I thought my mom was a stage parent. Grabe ang pressure. I’m glad I prefer PM sched (when my daughter goes to school).
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Grabe noh? Hehe.
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
Grabe!! Oo nga, now people have to line up at 1AM para mauna. Kaloka. 🙂
Oh gosh, wag naman as early as 1am! Hehehe
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
I salute parent/guradian number 1 and number 53 of course..I am just wondering what school is this? Ang higpit ng scheduling dito ha.
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Hehehe, number 1 deserves all the salute. 🙂
Hahahaha! I am glad I won’t be braving getting up that early just to get whatever-slot it is. My gosh! I couldn’t even get up at 6am anymore due to burn outs.
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Good for you. 🙂
LOL! So glad my daughter’s school just gave us a sheet of paper with our preferred schedule. And they adjust if there are more who want to join the AM class.
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Oh, that’s a nicer setup 🙂
Haha! Naku po, I must admit, mukhang magiging guilty ako for something close to that if and when the time comes! #themakingsofastagemommy
Monica Rios recently posted…Vito’s Circus Party
Wow, stage mom material ka din pala. 🙂
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
What? Ganun na ba ngayon? I couldn’t blame her, though, if ganun kahigpit ang labanan for slots. Is the scheduling really that strict? I guess we’ll stick to homeschooling then hehe
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Hehe, di naman siguro like this for other schools. 🙂
Wow! Grabe.
But then again, may be she has another reason, aside from that slot for the child, for going there that early.
Que Sullano – Gavan recently posted…Gelattto for My Feet
Baka one of the reasons is kung may sibling na nasa morning slot, mas ideal nga kung morning na din para sabay. Although, dapat is they have priority already.
WOW! I wake up at 4:30am at home but I don’t think I can line-up that early!
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I can’t even wake up that early! Haha
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
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Hahaha! Now I know I’m not alone…
Last 2 school-year, we also failed getting the morning slot as 7am is already late, I end up getting somewhere between #40 and #50. Last year, they change the system and used online registration which starts at 9am and I still get #33.
I commend those early bird parents!
Shiella A. (Balot) recently posted…When coughs, colds and fever strikes
Ok yung online a. At least you don’t have to get dressed and leave home. 🙂
Cheryl recently posted…Dear 4AM Parent
I’ll be enrolling my eldest this coming schoolyear but I don’t think I can wake up at 3am and line up at 4 in school. Hehehe. OA sa aga :))
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My goodness. Haha parang kukuha lang ng NBI. :))
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I think that that school must have a very organized system of opening slots for all enrollees. Hindi ung parang agawan buko 😀
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Hmmm… I wonder if I’ll be an OA parent when my son gets older! hahahah…. But then again, I wouldn’t line up as early as 4AM naman!
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