Ethan will complete his 2 nd week of Kindergarten this week, and I realized that he is now at an age that I also remember. I went to Kindergarten at Mrs. Wilkes which was a classroom in the back of her dentist husband's office in Twin Falls. I was in the "morning" class like Ethan is, and I met kids in Kindergarten who I knew all through school and even college. I doubt Ethan will have such lifelong acquaintances because today's world is so transitory. Age-old traditions of school boundaries seem blurred in the era of "school of choice, charter schools, magnet schools, on-line schools, etc." But I digress. The biggest lesson I've learned -- this is my blog after all -- is that we evidently do need " stinkin ' rules." I have read the Monroe Elementary School Handbook cover to cover several times. I know that at 10:15 every day, my son has recess. I know that he has PE one day, music one day, and art another day. W
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