School days

Last week was the seventh grade honor roll celebration. Reed said he didn't want us to go, but this is part of the never-ending parental dilemma....they say they don't want you there, but maybe secretly they do. Or at least maybe one day they'll appreciate that you were there. So I went. I wasn't received well. If he was secretly happy that I was there, he hid it pretty well. I know, I know...normal teenage behavior. Still made me a little sad. Then Tod reminded me that the during an outing to the Torpedo Factory art gallery the previous weekend, Reed very frequently held my hand (which was so nice). So maybe things are just as they should be. 

The certificate is a little worse for wear
after a trip through Reed's backpack.

Another school thing that was weighing on my mind was Amy's sixth grade classes. The middle school principal indicated that a lot of kids who were placed in accelerated math (Math 6/7, where they do all of 6th and 7th grade math in one school year) turned out not to be ready for the class, so they changed the testing process with the hopes of getting only students who could really handle the class. The day she went to the computer lab to take the test, for some reason the test wasn't loaded on her profile the way it was supposed to be. They tried to fix it but she ended up having to miss science class later in the day to go take the test on her own. I was concerned that she might have been really stressed out over all the changes of plan, but no need to worry – she got a 90%, when a 70% or higher was needed to be recommended for the accelerated math class. The same day we got those results, we got the rest of her recommendations...

All honors classes.

Way to go, kids!