This month's EtsyBlogger's Blog Carnival is about back to school memories. Yesterday my 16 year old son went back to public school for the first time since second grade. I felt both anxious and melancholy all day. I pulled my son out of public school at the end of second grade because he was having a great deal of difficulty learning to read and the school system really had no answers for his problem. We home-schooled from 3rd grade until 8th and in 9th and 10th grades he did cyber school. A mutual family decision was made that public high school would be the best for his last 2 years of school.
I know my son was both nervous and excited when he left yesterday morning to go to school. Fortunately I had a very busy day of work, otherwise I would have probably sat around worrying all day. I sort of felt the same way a parent feels when they first send their kid to kindergarten. When he finally got home in the afternoon I was relieved to hear he had a pretty good day.
