I’m in 3rd grade again.….

// September 4th, 2008 // The Boy

and the school is work­ing my nerves!

I don’t recall third grade being so much WORK. The boy has to read 3 – 4 books a month and do book reports on each one. That’s in addi­tion to his spelling and math home­work every day.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for kids get­ting a good edu­ca­tion. School is the only job they have…but dang.…do I have to be dragged along too? Let me add, the boy wants to join the Cub Scouts now, too. 

now..the part where some­body is about to get told off:

My son packs his lunch most days, but some days he chooses the school lunch. That’s cool, but the only thing he can get to drink is milk. HE DOES NOT DRINK MILK. OF ANY KIND. Ever since 1st grade, he’s brought his own drink (usu­ally a Capri Sun). This year, I get a note from the teacher talkin bout she’s been informed that he needs a MEDICAL EXCUSE in order to be able to drink his Capri Sun! DA PUFF?

It was Meet the Teacher night at the school today. I approached the Prin­ci­pal on this issue. She said that the state audits the school on the lunches, and got in trou­ble last year for hav­ing milk left over. I can under­stand that. I told her to let him take the milk, but not to tell him he can’t drink his juice. That’s what I’m con­cerned about. She asked if I could get a med­ical excuse. I told her: THIS IS NOT A MEDICAL ISSUE. MY SON DOES NOT DRINK MILK. PERIOD. I also told her that the fact that I’m his mother and I’ve noti­fied the school as to MY wishes regard­ing what MY child eats should be ENOUGH. Any­hoo, she told me to send her a note tomor­row to remind her to speak to some­one higher up about it. 

I’m not mad at the teacher or the prin­ci­pal. I’m irri­tated with the state govt for think­ing that they can dic­tate what goes in my son’s mouth, and that my direc­tive is not enough…I gotta have a doc­tor excuse.

A doctor’s excuse? For JUICE?

GTPOH.

Some­body bet­ter fix it. QUICK.

© 2008, Soli Deo Glo­ria!. All rights reserved.

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I’m in 3rd grade again.….

3 Responses to “I’m in 3rd grade again.….”

  1. tonya5015 says:
    September 8, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    girl, i know what you mean about the home­work. my son is in the 6th grade and his teacher gave him home­work and books the first day of school. they have home­work every night included fri­days and when they havea day off for teach­ers meet­ings or what ever she makes sure to give them enough home­work to cover the day out of school.

    my daugh­ter had a teacher tell me a cou­ple years ago that the kids are not allowed to brings chips, and cer­tain types of juice or cook­ies and snack cakes to school in their lunches because it cause them to be too hip­per. now ain’t that some snig­gidy?

  2. MsRikki says:
    September 9, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Snig­gidy? OH..I HAVE TO USE THAT ONE! LOL! 

    Wait..they told you what they can bring in their lunches? OH NO. They would have had a SERIOUS fight on their hands. I’m not going for you telling me what I can and can­not feed my child.

  3. tonya5015 says:
    September 20, 2008 at 7:43 am

    that year in her lunch she HAD her chips or cook­ies or snack cakes. my thoughts were if you allowed the kids to run and play at recess instead of telling them to walk all the time they would burn off some of that energy.boy school sure has changes since i was in ele­men­tary. LOL