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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Rules, Rules, Rules…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sigh. So while Bridget basks under a French sky, the rest of us face the end of another school year.
No more pencils, no more books…well, you get the point. What I don’t get are all the rules that the end of school year brings, as if we haven’t had to toe the line all year?
No using your locker; no paper; no eating lunch in the cafeteria (cuts down, I’m told, on the possibilities of a good (warning: audio) food fight?).
I know one mom who’s ready to rebel against the no-backpacks-on-the-bus mandate — yet another rule to follow on the last day (which for most schools is Friday). School administrators “fear [kids will be] throwing paper and things out the window,” she tells me. “But what’s to stop them from throwing paper out the window Thursday instead?” She also packs her kids’ lunch in the bags and cools the food with an ice pack. Of course, lunch bags aren’t allowed on the last day at her Cobb school, either.
I know, I know, teachers deal with enough grief than having to worry about picking up the mess that kids may leave. But when did that sweet release of school’s last day become so regimented?
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