Seriously....

[bmccasland]

Thanks to my teachers in elementary school - we found that I had kidney problems, and needed glasses (individual discoveries).

And also thanks to my junior high science teacher - I discovered the joys of biology and nature. Am a professional biologist, Thank you Mr. D!

My only disappointment with my teachers and any other adult I ever dealt with growing up, I'm a separate person, I am not N's little sister. After every move, having a teacher that never taught my brother was a godsend.

[zoom-zoom]

We love our son's school (a charter Montessori), for the most part...but they have a LONG-TERM bad habit of giving us <1 week notification for everything. Like the info. for the Fall fundraiser. We're supposed to address envelopes for friends and family, then the school stuffs them and puts postage on and mails them. They gave these out on Friday and they were supposed to be returned Monday. DS didn't even give us the envelope with the info. until Mon., which puts some of the blame on him, but we had a crazy busy weekend and would have been crunched for time to do these, anyhow. It would have been nice if they'd have given us a week. And we found out about the Destination Imagination and Mackinaw Island field trip meetings via e-mail only 1-3 days before the meetings. There's no way to plan ahead for anything, so frequently we have to miss things. Drives. Me. Nuts! A friend pulled her DD from the school a couple of years ago, since it was impossible for her to plan anything school-related around her work schedule with so little notice.