Tag: school

  • Watch these relevant documents

    Thank you for all your thoughtful comments on my post about education today, or at least my corner of it. I’ve had some great materials forwarded my way. Watch these now. 5 Dangerous things you should let your kids do, by Gever Tulley I grew up like this. It works. Tulley runs The Tinkering School…

  • Why school is not for boys. At least not Mike.

    Sit still. No running on the playground. No playing chase or tag on the playground. No pretending to be the guys from Star Wars on the playground. I get it. You’re afraid of lawsuits from kids getting hurt. You don’t want children playing violent games and making other kids feel unsafe. It is hard to…

  • All three kids are out of school until Wednesday

    Hold me.

  • A note on my hand, that should work. Right?

    At some point this morning while dropping kids off at school I wrote a note to myself on my hand. I try not to do that because it isn’t the greatest look to sport, plus I don’t want my kids to start drawing on themselves (more). But during kid dropoff I resort to it because…

  • I'm starting to feel seriously oppressed by The Man

    So FINALLY Mike was accepted off the wait list for Kindergarten. For our local public school. Did you catch that? He was put on the wait list for our neighborhood public school. That we pay tax dollars to. That we moved to this area to attend. Give me a break. But now that I’ve gotten…