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It's a gloriously overcast day here in Flag County. The snow started after school yesterday and continued into the night. My classes were cancelled and now the kids' schools are closed. Unlike last week's unfortunate experience, this time the school district means it.
It is good to have a break. Yesterday I had a series of unsettling events:
- A teacher asked for a quick conference with me concerning a Flag child who is not making the academic progress he should, yet he clearly has a command of those missing skills at home.
- My phone rang and rang yesterday with a kind teacher trying to tell me that another Flag child was ill and needed to come home.
- Of course, I did not know where my phone was during those calls. That meant the very nice teacher had to do a bit of dectective work to find a responsible Flag parent.
- When I finally got to the school, I parked illegally (which is the norm at our school for picking up sick kids); unfortunately, that was the moment a school bus chose to pull up two inches from my car and demanded I move. Did the bus driver speak directly to me? No, she spoke through a group of 5th graders. That seemed to annoy the office staff, who demanded I not move my car. When confronted by the office staff and reminded that I was there to pick up an ill child, the bus driver remembered that she could actually drive around my van.
- When I got home, my neighbor had shoveled my driveway AGAIN. I should be grateful for neighbors who compete to shovel my driveway before I do, but I feel guilty. Of course, having the neighbor shovel is safer than the method used by a neighbor my parents used to have. His method was to pour gasoline all over his driveway and then light it. He had the clearest, dryest driveway in town.
Now it's time to enjoy the snow day. I am off to beat my 6 year in Guitar Hero. If I time everything right, the neighbor will be finished with my driveway soon.
