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Back to School by the numbers
- Aug 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
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During my 23 year tenure as military mom of 3 and resident back-to-school aficianado, I have dutifully dealt with:
1 school sports related injury
1 gym class injury
1 clarinet
1 university
1 school suspension
1 prom princess
2 class pet weekend visits
2 Flat Stanley projects
2 recorders
2 painfully lengthy recorder performances of "Hot Cross Buns"
2 class rings
2 high schools
2 high school graduations
2 overly stressful cheerleading tryouts
3 mediocre science fair projects
3 detentions
3 meetings with school psychologists
4 SAT registrations
4 middle schools (2 horrible, 2 fabulous)
4 school visits made by family dog for show and tell (happily, with minimal discharge of bodily functions)
5 dress code violations
6 team parties in my home
6 meetings with principals
6 class trips out of town/overnights
7 proms
7 preschools
8 elementary schools
9 school carnivals
9 missed school buses
10 years as a scout leader
10 track meets attended
12 golf matches attended
13 months library book missing before turned in, as required for graduation
13 band performances, some were enjoyable, some painful to hear
16 PTA and school volunteer positions, again, some enjoyable, some painful
17 field trips chaperoned
21 classroom parties, organized or helped with
22 theater/choir performances
23 school nurse visits
25 sports events attended to watch daughter cheerleadering
36 open house/meet the teacher/back to school nights (sometimes visiting two schools in one night)
36 school picture days
47 poster projects
55 school dances
60 basketball games attended
64 parent-teacher conferences
83 swim meets attended
176 report cards (including preschool progress reports)
7200 school lunches (minus absences)
...and counting
Comments:
Please tell me some of those numbers are estimates. You didn't really keep track of exactly how many class trips you attended.
Some are estimates for example the basketball games, I estimated 12 games per season for 5 seasons.
The field trip number consists of all that my daughters and I could remember off the tops of our heads. I really believe there were more than that and they just weren't all that memorable. lol
None of us could agree on "number of backpacks purchased" so I left that one off the list.
47 poster projects was an estimate that went something like this:
"I don't think I did any until 5th grade when I did that one on Illinois and then one on a famous American. Middle school-there was one for science every year, plus at least one for health and one for tech. In high school there was one for each year of Spanish, one for history"....etc. etc. -- times three daughters.
I can only imagine my numbers when all is said and done with six kids...I don't think I can count that high! :)
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And a partridge in a pear tree!! Seeing some of what you've dealt with makes me feel much better LOL! No offense...I 've had my share of school ups and downs. It's funny though (I don't know about you) but my mother (never my dad) didn't do half the things us moms do nowadays. I guess that says something about us : )
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