Kaitlyn came home from her first full day of second grade extremely grumpy.<\/p>\n
The moment she stepped off the bus, she smiled and said \u0093Mommy! I had a great day!\u0094 And it went downhill from there. Quickly.<\/p>\n
First, she explained to me how lunch works. You pick a hot or a cold lunch. I said, \u0093so the hot lunch is the lunch you buy there?\u0094 No. She swears it isn\u0092t. I don\u0092t know what she thinks the hot lunch means. Does she think they have a row of microwaves for kids to use? I can\u0092t get her to answer me. She just yells at me that I don\u0092t understand and slams her little hand on the table. Bottom line is, all she\u0092s eaten all day is tomatoes, a yogurt drink and a cookie. She didn\u0092t touch the macaroni and cheese I packed for her. This is not good. This is a problem. Someone should have helped her. I\u0092m not there. I\u0092ve never been to her elementary school. But I cannot imagine that she\u0092s got this quite right. Yes, she\u0092s used to being served her lunch like she\u0092s at a restaurant. But she\u0092s a kid. She\u0092s adaptable. Isn\u0092t she?<\/p>\n
Then I took out the one sheet of paper in her folder. It was a page titled \u0093get to know new friends in second grade.\u0094 There were a few rows of boxes and each box had a description like \u0093has a pet dog\u0094 or \u0093is an only child\u0094 or \u0093wearing something blue today.\u0094 A couple boxes have names scribbled in them. A couple seem to have the word \u0093no\u0094 in them. She asked me to read it to her. I said we could read it together. This initiated a complete meltdown. She hollered that I don\u0092t understand that this wasn\u0092t a reading assignment and that I must be crazy and she stomped off.. stomping all the way up the stairs and through the hallway. And I must be the one who is crazy? Once she calmed down, I asked her to explain to me how this worked in class. How did she know whose name to put in the box? How did she know what each box said? Because certainly \u0093has a dog\u0094 is something a second grader would be expected to be able to read. I still have absolutely NO IDEA how this exercise worked in class. NONE. Mostly, I know that I am apparently crazy for even asking. <\/p>\n
I was so looking forward to Kaitlyn going to school in the US. So looking forward to understanding her work and being able to relate to the classroom experience. But so far, I haven\u0092t understood a thing. The one thing I do understand is I\u0092m already afraid she is in over her head. And it\u0092s only second grade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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