When I first saw the calendar for this school year, I thought I was going to hate The New Format / Time-DayS for the conferences, but it was nice. Seeing the parents of "only" 15 students per day was a pleasant surprise . . . and how can I complain about Friday off? And after 21 years of conferences, I stumbled onto a magic phrase. I've always asked parents if there were concerns they wanted to make me aware of, and they usually just smiled and said, no, everything is great --- but this year I added "or anything else that needs to come to my attention." Wow! Thank you, parents, for sharing with me. I feel so much able to understand your children and prepared to help them over their personal rough spots.
How could you not know that we finished reading Where the Red Fern Grows this week? How can a kid not love it? Well, okay, if a boy gets a little choked up, it hurts his pride --- that's a reason, I suppose!
Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things on Monday! Have the Best Weekend Ever!
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