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Last night, Brian and I took Aya to an ice cream social at her kindergarten teacher’s house. It was a short drive to a very nice part of town, where most of the driveways hold a Mercedes or two and most of the houses are worth close to a million dollars. As we got [...]
Part of the appeal of the school we have Aya in is the focus on field trips. There are a lot of them, probably about two or three trips a month, all tied to various classroom projects. It’s a parent-oriented endeavor. The parents pay for the field trips, drive, bring supplies, and supervise the students.
Each [...]
We went to Aya’s open house at school last night. I don’t remember any parent nights when I was in kindergarten, so I didn’t have much to compare it to. I only remember open house from 3rd grade and up, and those were tiresome affairs with bitter teachers.
I didn’t take photographs, so words [...]
When I was talking with Aya about how school was going, she explained that she knew why there would no school on Monday, January 21, 2008.
She told me, “There was a ‘chocolate’ man who was shot.”
I was very surprised.
Aya climbed onto my bed as I changed out of my work clothes and watched me. She [...]
There’s a parent at Aya’s school who has made a habit of leaving her young children alone in a parked car in a loading zone at the school while she attends to various duties. This issue has made it to the agenda at several monthly parent meetings (… wonder why law enforcement hasn’t been contacted [...]
