Starting School

My kids started school recently and they love it! We attended an open house, met their teachers, and then dropped them off that first day. The third child wasn't too excited to stay, but he did fine after a few minutes. Everyone else did great! We walked them to class that first day; the second day, I dropped them off and it was so fun to see them trot into the building wearing their little backpacks. They are so sweet!

Unfortunately, the school let us know late last week that they are dissolving the class our third child is in. Today was his first day in his new class and it didn't go so well. I'm guessing the school received late notice of some budget cuts because they had to let his teacher go and I heard there was another teacher in a different grade level that was laid off too. This is happening just a few weeks after school started! I hope whoever caused this unfortunate incident is seriously thinking about the consequences of his/her poor planning. Whether it's at the school level, the district level, or the state level, someone messed up and some teachers and lots of students are feeling the pain.

But like everything else, I'm sure everyone will adapt. My son will figure it out and I'm sure he'll love his new teacher just as much as he grew to love his first teacher in the short time he had her. He's a tough kid. He's smart; he's funny; he's sweet. He's also a bit of nut, but I can't really blame him for that. There's a bit of the 'Me pot ... you kettle' syndrome in calling my son a nut.