I'm going to start by just diving in. Today, I have Choo home with me and Bear because they are holding Special Olympics. Why isn't he participating? He is not old enough. You must be 8 to play. However, for the past two years (at two different schools) he went to the track and field events and they had a special section for prekindergarten and kindergarten. Not this year? He could have gone and sat around all day. Yes, I'm laughing right now. That would have been horrible for him and whoever was watching him. But, don't worry, he won't be marked as absent. Seriously, I wonder how many 'free' days they are going to give my child. He was off last Friday because all three of his teachers were going to be out. I was told a substitute would be there. A sub was there, but not for HIS class. Seems all of the special ed teachers were out. So, Choo had to go to another classroom with students and a para he didn't know. I got a call at 8:40 (he had been there since 8:10) to come pick him up because they "didn't know what to do with him"; "he is very upset". Crap. It would have been better if I had been told about this earlier in the week, but they informed me at 3:00pm on Thursday afternoon. (They had just realized that all three of them would be out- really?) Information should have been more forthcoming, but this is not a surprise. I wanted him to go to school because he was going to be off on Monday due to 'staff development & parent/teacher conferences'. Do you have any idea what this is doing to our routine? Tomorrow and Friday will be hell getting him ready for school, and then TWO MORE FREAKING DAYS OFF, aka 'the weekend'.
Maybe I can entice him into the pool...
