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I NEED THIRD GRADERS! Not many… 3 or 4 would be good… then I might get to add a teacher. How cool would that be to have small classes? Anybody know of any third graders who live in my attendance zone who haven’t enrolled yet?
I made home visits today. Trying to find my kids who haven’t shown up for school yet. I don’t want them to miss several weeks and then show up saying they didn’t know when school started. Not the kids, the parents. I didn’t know when school started… I didn’t have a bill to prove that I live in the house I live in. Some just waiting a few more days because school starts too soon.
Hillary Clinton once said (I think it was Hillary anyway), that it takes a village to raise a child. How true this is. I know that I pontificate at great length on the importance of education. Problem is it’s usually my wife who is listening (or in the same room watching TV and not listening). I agree with Hillary… no…. you can’t quote me on that… it does take a village. But the point of me bringing up Hillary is that is does should take a village. We should all worry about the education that is provided in our schools. We should all worry that the kids next door haven’t gone to school yet. IT’S OUR VILLAGE!
I remember starting elementary school. We started with first grade because kindergarten was not in public schools. You had to pay. I have five siblings. I’m the youngest. Keep him at home or send him to kindergarten? Keep him at home and we can eat or send him to kindergarten and we eat potatoes for every meal. My parents kept me at home. I started 1st grade when I was 6 turning 7 in October. How smart were my parents. I couldn’t read. I think I knew all my letters… but that was over 35 years ago…The point I’m making is my parents didn’t know anymore than anyone else about school. They just knew it was a good thing. School was not about childcare… school was about making life better. Making my life and my siblings lives better… and guess what… IT WORKED!I think we take that for granted today. Schools really do a good job of educating, and everyone is required to go to school. But, I don’t think people really look at school making life better.
I saw tears on many faces this morning, both kids and parents, in the kindergarten area when parents where dropping off the kids. I don’t think I saw any teachers crying… at least not in front of me. I saw fear on parents’ faces. I saw apprehension. I saw joy. I saw many confronting the unknown. Not knowing this person they were turning their kids over to. When school was out today I saw relief. I saw hope. I saw smiles and happiness.
And tomorrow… I hope to see 3 or 4 more third graders!
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