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There Are Bus Drivers. And Then There’s Miss Pam.

June 29, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

For the past eight years, Miss Pam has been picking at least one of the kids up and driving them to  kindergarten and first grade and then returning them safely home at the end of the day. That’s like one thousand four hundred forty days. For the last one thousand four hundred forty school days […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bus drivers, first grade, kindergarten, last day of school

The After School Struggle

September 18, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

I was at a birthday party with Number 7 for a girl in her class on Saturday, and I was sitting next to a mom I’ve never really spoken to. Since it’s the beginning of the school year, she asked me, as people often do in September, how Number 7 was liking school. I told […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: expectations, first grade, kindergarten, school, stamina, struggling

To My Kids’ Teachers

August 31, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This year we have a kindergartener, first grader, second grader, fifth grader, sixth grader, and high school senior. We’ve got at least one kid in each school in the district. And each of those six kids is different. Some are strong students, some are not so strong. Some are well behaved, some are not so […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bully, first grade, high school, kindergarten, school, teacher, teachers

This is going to be harder for me than it is for you.

August 30, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I’ve been counting down the minutes until the kids go to school tomorrow. So have the girls. They are super excited. But Number 6 is fighting it every step of the way. Every morning he wakes up, asks how many more days there are until school starts, and then as soon as I tell him, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: first day of school, first grade, Number 6, teacher

Education is all about customer service. And the service here kind of sucks.

August 24, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Eighteen years ago I got a 4th grade teaching position in a fairly wealthy and extremely competitive school district in Fairfield County, CT. I had just moved back to Connecticut from Pennsylvania where I had been teaching for five years. After the principal offered me the job, I was sent to meet with the Assistant Superintendent. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: first grade, kindergarten, school, teachers, test, testing, tests

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