Where is the Art Show???????

OK, so earlier this week I discovered one of my sons pieces of art was selected to be in the 6th Annual South County Pyramid Art Show. Awesome! I ask him, what piece of art got selected to be in the show? The response I get is, "I don't know." So I asked, "Was it something you drew or something you made?" again, "I don't know". OK no problem, I'll see it when I go there. The flier (see attachment) was in his backpack which is how I discovered it anyway. He didn't even tell me himself! 

Yesterday after I picked up my son from after-school care, we went straight to the high school where the art show was being held. I was excited to see his artwork and he was excited to show it to me.

OK now here is my first problem. High school is called a Secondary school here in the state of Virginia. Where I am from, Florida, Secondary schools are a bad thing. Like, barbed wire around the fences surrounding the school kind of bad. So I'm wondering why in the heck an art show featuring elementary students and their artwork would be in a high school for juvenile delinquents? Odd. But I get there and it turns out to be just a regular high school. Whew.

I arrive, and head into the school. My son desperately needs to pee so we go on the hunt for a bathroom. The inside of this school is massive, with corridors going off in all sorts of different directions. I don't remember high school being that difficult to navigate. There are signs above each corridor telling what is located down it, and as I pass several of these, I see nothing about a bathroom. For the love! FINALLY I find one and my son does the pee pee dance allllll the way into it. He comes out happy which is all that matters. So we make our trek back to where we entered the school to hunt down the Silver Box Theatre. 

What comes to mind when you hear the word "theatre"? Big room with a stage and places for an audience to sit? Or maybe even a small room with a smaller stage area. No. The "Silver Box Theatre" is a CLASSROOM. That's it! A freakin classroom! Want to know what is worse? The "Silver Box Theatre" was labeled the "Black Box Theatre" on the plate outside the room. Yeah. There was a classroom named "Black Box Theatre" and "Blue Box Theatre" but NO "Silver Box Theatre" whatsoever. I'm wondering where "Jack in the Box Theatre" is at this point. I had to enlist the help of a student driver, a janitor, a teacher grading papers, and two little high school girls just to find the dang room. They all seemed to know it as the "Silver Box Theatre" even though it was called the "Black Box Theatre" on the plate outside the room.

Good lord.

This is the best part: The room was empty. Lights off, doors locked, no one there. My son and I are peeking inside, we see the art displays, but there is no art show. Again, I consult the all-knowing flier, and it's telling me that it SHOULD be open, but it's not. My son was incredibly disappointed.

Now flash forward to today. First thing I did when I sat down at my desk was to call the secondary (high) school and ask them what the hell happened. I was told that some teacher needed the CLASSROOM (not so "silver box theatre" afterall HA) so the art show was closed yesterday and taken down today. O-M-G. Seriously? Really? Should I fax them their own flier to tell them that this was not supposed to happen?

Normally I don't get all anal about things. I really don't. I'm chill, relaxed, easy going, etc. But this was IMPORTANT. 

Now let's sum up the lessons learned from this little 2-day excursion.

1. Secondary schools are NOT juvenile delinquent schools

2. In the Virginia public school system, a classroom can also be called a "theatre" 

3. The "theatre" may be labeled as one certain color designation, but the true color designation is on a need-to-know basis only

4. Just because the flier says it's open Monday - Friday from 6:30pm - 8pm, doesn't mean it is

5. Chuck E Cheese can solve any disappointed child's feelings