School Days, School Days
(Please note: This is not a picture of the first day of school, as promised. This is a picture of Mrs. Medlock with Ellie at the fair. Somebody accidently deleted the pictures from the first day of school. No one has taken credit for that yet.)
Ellie started kindergarten this year, and Caleb started second grade. Each of them had strong reactions to the first week of school, which is, of course, completely social and non-academic.
Ellie’s reaction on Friday was “I don’t want to stay home tomorrow. I love school, and I want to see my friends!”
Caleb’s reaction was to come down with a weird excuse every day of the week for why he couldn’t go to school that day. On Tuesday, it was stomach cramps. On Wednesday, he had a headache. On Thursday, he thought he might throw up. And on Friday, he began to look up diseases on the Internet because he was running out of believable illnesses and was not creative enough to think of West Nile Virus or Bird Flu.
Caleb thinks that socialization without academic challenge is a waste of his time. Ellie thinks that academic challenge without socialization is boring. How could they come from the same gene pool? I ask myself that every day.
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