Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.
I went to my grandson's graduation this morning. The ceremony was for kids graduating from fifth grade, which is elementary school, into junior high school, which is a pretty big step for a kid. So next Fall, my grandson will be going to a junior high school about 2 miles away. And instead of being one of the big kids in elementary school, he will be one of the small kids in junior high school, and that, too, is a big change.
My granddaughter's last day of school is Thursday, and she will be entering the fourth grade this Fall, which will be the first time she's gone to school without her brother in the same school. Since the school's times are different, this will likely lead to some confusion and a few issues for everyone involved. But other families deal with it, so I assume we will too.
I don't remember much about elementary school, except that, being a baby boomer, every school in the country was overcrowded with us boomers, so they filled the classes with as many kids as possible, but they still didn't have enough room for us, so they made some strange decisions on how to handle the problem. And the way they handled the problem in South Carolina was by moving some books around and turning the school library into a third- and fourth-grade classroom. So not only were two grades scrunched together in the same room, but we also had children from other classes walking among us, trying to check out library books.
And that wasn't the worst thing they did..... I spent fifth grade in the school boiler room, where the boilers that heated the school were located. Then one day the boiler sprang a leak and flooded the boiler room "classroom." Thank goodness no one was in it at the time, since boiler water is usually pretty hot. Not knowing what else to do with us, my class spent the rest of the school year sitting on bleachers in the school gymnasium. We didn't learn much of anything, but we got to watch a lot of basketball.
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Sunset at the Petrified Forest National Park.