Beyond The Call Of Duty

What a weekend. I spent 18 hours sitting on a kindergarten size chair on my senior size butt. Can you say ouch! I was helping my daughter cut and paste scrapbooks for each of her 22 students. I can’t believe the work she puts into this project. She started doing them several years ago when she had a student who was in the foster care system. This little boy had been moved from place to place and came to her with no school records from his previous school. She was told he had been moved around so much his records hadn’t caught up with him yet. Thinking about all the schools he had already attended in his first year of school she also realized that he really had nothing to show for his time. No one had been putting his drawings on a refrigerator or filling a box with his keepsakes so she started saving samples of all the children’s work and made beautiful scrapbooks for each child to have at the end of the year. That scrapbook, containing samples of everything they have done in kindergarten, might be the only record some children will ever have of their first year in school. Every child deserves to feel special and that they matter to someone.