GTL, Baby?

This isn't my idea. Far from it. It's the idea that resulted from a good idea in Montreal that could have resulted from another good idea. Because that's how good ideas work, like ivy on a old brick wall, it keeps growing and growing and growing...
I'll start from the good idea number one, which came from a teacher of early education in Montreal. The task she gave the students was to create their own daycare, with lesson plans and activities that meet the general requirements of the province (i.e.: plan a variety of activities that meet all the needs of the children, like physical, motor, etc).
Then she told them that they had to market it to a certain target audience. Now in a world of straight-A, hit-the-books, toe the rope sort of class, the students might have thoughts, "Um, okay, I guess my target market is the neighborhood I live in, and we live near a park, soo...".
Boring, right? Because most likely, that is what the students will do. Open daycares in their neighborhoods, and lead pretty amazing lives as educators of our youth.
No, the teacher wanted them to think big.
"Think...daycare for rap stars. Think daycare for Donald Trump's kids. Think daycare for urber trendy parents that jet-set around the world, and want their kids to be jetsetters, too."
My friend, who is in the class, told me that everyone's eyes just lite up.
"So we can create a counting activity with 1000 bills?"
"Yup."
"And we can have dress-up with Prada and Guchi?"
"If you have a lesson plan as to why you're playing dress-up, then yes."
"And we can teach the kids to play drums if we open a punk rock daycare?"
"Yea, pretty much you can do whatever you want, whatever you can think of."

And that's how the GTL Daycare, for babies of the Jersey Shore, came about. My good friend who is an excellent child carer, and who has brilliantly aced the courses and is setting a whole new standard of what it means to be a good student, decided she wanted to have a daycare where the children went to the gym, tanned, and looked good.
"For a fine motor skills activity, I'm going to teach them how to put on fake eyelashes."

In some ways, I'm a little nervous, because I'm sure that some parents would love it if their kid was raised to be just like them. Tanned babies in three inch heels and drawn-on abs? But on the other hand, it makes me laugh so much at all the crazy and well-thought out ideas that are coming from this class, that, yea, I'm just happy that the world has more new ideas.