12 long years...

"and this is what I have to show for it?" is what she asked me.

Two elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools (even if she was only at the one for three days).

She tended to be better friends with some of her teachers vs. her peers. It wasn't until the last school that she had a principle who deserved respect. There was a lot of crying about report cards. There was some crying about homework. There was no crying about her graduating.

I am glad this part as a parent is over. The next chapter in her education is really in her hands... but that's another blog post.

CONGRATULATIONS KID! 
the above is a link to a set of photos that captures it well. check it aht!

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I have several posts churning around up there in my gray matter... but I've been a bit busy, and distracted, and caught up in my own whirl wind of life and what not. Of the more important commitments, school has been tops on the list. I was thrilled when I actually got an A on my mid-term. An A in math! Me... getting an A in math! I strutted my stuff over that one a little bit.

While I am very much looking forward to the end of the class... I will miss some very specific things..

• My teacher, Mister O. , he has taught me more then just "Arithmetic Fundamentals".
  
• My table neighbor, Miss. Cunningham (she is solid, I truly LOVE her).
  
• The guard and the janitor postin' up at the door, always with a helpful hand and kind greeting.
  
• I will even miss the hooligans and fooligans (inside and out)
• but most of all......

I will miss the LIGHT... that shines in through the shades, that illuminates the hallways of a school, that settles on the desks before the end of day, that emanates from humans sharing knowledge....

lucky am I to share in that tradition.