Jack's off at his first day of second grade!
This is a big year for him. The school he goes to starts subject rotation in the second grade. He'll have seven different teachers (language arts, math, science, social studies, PE/health, art/music, and Spanish) and he has to remember to go to a different classroom at the start of school every other day. Luckily they are right next door to each other!
School will also be a big adventure because they're going for one year to the old middle school while their building is being torn down and rebuilt. We went to the back-to-school open house yesterday and spent an hour just figuring out where to go and meeting all of his teachers!
Needless to say Jack isn't all that excited about going back to school ("Summer vacation was, like, only five days long!"). I'm sure he'll adjust, but I'm tired just thinking about how many more years he's got!
The other day I tried to appeal to his values in an effort to get him more excited about school. "Jack," I said, "Do you know that there's a direct relationship between how much education a person has and how much money they make? The more education, the more money."
"Well, I'd rather be uneducated and stupid and poor."
That about sums up a seven-year-old's capacity to envision the future!
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