Middle School is very unpleasant

Today was the first day of Mommy & Me swimming lessons for Chazzy Chazz and I. The class itself was great. Charles was the biggest kid there, but he was also the best. He blew bubbles and splashed and laughed and had a great time.
However, this class takes place at a Scarlett Middle School. It has been a long time since I have been in a middle school. They are dingy and old and small. They have little tiny bathrooms, little tiny lockers, and the showers are low and have no privacy. The pool itself was nice, but it was badly lit. I don't think my Middle school locker room was so much better or anything, but at the time I didn't expect much more. It is bad enough that the Middle School experience was the worst two years of my life, but to also force those poor kids into such nasty conditions is just not fair.

Since then, I have gone swimming at very nice, adult gyms. Gyms that have family changing rooms, saunas, private showers and changing rooms. Middle Schoolers get none of these things. I have moved up to pools with water slides, hot tubs, and lazy rivers. It was very difficult to go back to a small dank pit of a pool.

To make matters in the locker room worse:

• Charles peed on the floor through his swimmy diaper.
  
• We walked in on a whole family using the only real bathroom.
• We couldn't find the door that lead from the locker room to the pool. I was sure we would never be allowed to leave.

Maybe this is a good transition for me. In a few years Charles will be in the public school system and I have to have my expectations lowered by then. And to all my Middle School blog readers: Good News, the real world is MUCH better than Middle School.