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Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I am happy to announce that Rye is back in school today. He did not finish all of the school work sent home for his 3 day hiatus however considering the English teacher alone assigned him 57 pages of grammar work to complete in a grammar book she did not even send home with him [...]

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Not Quite Ready

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Apparently Rye was not quite ready to fully jump into the change of schools. Two days in and he intentionally rough-housed with a friend of his and then admitted to hitting the friend in the face to get out-of-school suspension. He did it on purpose. He didn’t hurt the friend at all and this is [...]

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Monday, January 11, 2010

Rye started at the new school today.
The new school is very different from the old school. The old school enrolls primarily upper-middle class students who come from families where both parents went to college, have corporate or professional jobs and live in very large, shiny new houses in planned subdivisions. The kids are very competitive [...]