Miss Hirt
The public schools open for classes next Wednesday. Berkeley will be
in the first grade this year and for the first time will attend school
for the entire day. The school district sends out elementary school
teacher assignment notifications via postcard. The cards were posted
yesterday and arrived today in the mail. Berkeley will be attending
the class taught my Miss Hirt. We immediately started calling all of
Berkeley's former kindergarten friends (Jake, Sam, Mitchell, etc),
neighbors (Greysen), and church classmates (Fox).
None - not a single one of his friends, neighbors, or church pals -
will be in his class this year. There are 4 first grade teachers, so
you'd think at least one would be in there. Nope.
Berkeley was disappointed, but he is still really excited for school to
start. He can't wait to ride the bus and trade Pokemon cards again and
sit next to his bus route buddies (Jake, Sam, Mitchell, etc). There
will be four new kids at the neighborhood bus stop this year... Scott,
Isabella, Greysen (switching from private to public school), and, uh,
that one little girl that lives on the inside corner... not sure what
her name is. Anyway, just a few more lazy days of summer and then
it's back to the school routine.
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