Category: 2022-2023 School Year
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20230514 Splash
The girls had their last swimming lesson this week. Up to the last week of lessons, both girls struggled a bit with keeping up with the other kids in their respective courses. Both girls were in introduction classes, but it was clear that the other kids in their classes had experience with being in water…
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20230508 Satisfactory
Dee Dee has been dealing with a bully at school since the start of the school year. Most of the stories she brought home made the kid sound like an annoying brat. And, seeing the kid in action, myself, I figured he was just an obnoxious but harmless twerp. Unfortunately, over the past few weeks…
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20230428 Northing
Over the course of the school year, Audio has gone to a few birthday parties, maybe four. Dee Dee has been invited to zero. On the days when Audio’s mom brought her to the birthday parties, I’ve done something fun with Dee Dee that we couldn’t do with the other two around. But no matter…
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20230422 Photos Two
The girls had their spring photos taken at school this week. Most of the other parents that I’ve spoken with about the new practice of taking photos in both the fall and in the spring agree that it’s overkill. But all of the other parents that I’ve spoken with about it have also said that…
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20230416 Charm
On the first Monday after ten days off, the girls were happy to get back to school, my wife was happy to get back to work, and I found the house incredibly quiet. The quiet was broken at the end of the first school day. Both girls came home pretty wound up. The first day…
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20230408 River
The girls are on spring break this week. We really like where we live. It’s why we live here. So, instead of bringing the girls somewhere else to see something interesting in someone else’s city, we decided to show them that there are cool things to do indoors and outdoors, all year round in our…
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20230402 Four
The girls had a four-day week with Friday off for Record Keeping Day because it is the end of the third quarter. On Record Keeping day the students stay home so the teachers are able to work out the students’ grades for their report cards without any disruption from the students. Having worked in schools…
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20230324 Communication
Audio came home from school at the end of last week and told us excitedly that she was going to have a new classmate, or as they say in High 5, a new “friend.” In Audio’s four-year-old English, she told us that that the new student would start this week and that the class was…
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20230317 Balloon
We enrolled Dee Dee in the Future Scientists after school program in January. When the course started in the beginning of February, the first session was cancelled because they didn’t have an instructor. There wasn’t an instructor for the second session, but instead of sending the kids home they had the Future Scientists watch a…
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20230304 Waiting
When I bring the girls to school in the morning, I bring them to the main entrance. Audio could wait with some of her classmates by a side entrance, near the parent drop-off spot, close to the street, and then go into the school with the teacher after all the kids have arrived. We walk…
Grade School in the Time of COVID19 