Showing posts with label Back to School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back to School. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2024

Back to School

By Kelly Bridgewater

This semester will be my last semester for my oldest to be in college. In December, he will graduate with his Bachelor’s degree in Theater.

I hope he finds work in this field.

He wants to be a voice actor like Robin Williams.

He does Disney Character impersonations already. He has videos on YouTube.

He enjoys participating in comedic theater.

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My youngest son is a sophomore this year.

He is maturing and growing into a little man. He is taller than me, and I can’t believe it.

Lord,

Be with all the students this year that have to attend school. Open their brains to fill it with the knowledge they need. Help them to understand the importance of a good education. Work hard. Get good grades and move forward in life as they serve you.

Guide the teachers to teach the truth and plant seeds of enjoyment in the students’ lives as they instruct day in and day out. Encourage them and help them to not grow weary.

Help the parents to understand that the teachers are humans. They can make mistakes, but they are there to help educate their children.

Encourage those who work in Education but are not the actual teachers. Administrative Assistants. Principals. Professors. Financial Aid Counselors. Admissions Counselors. Deans.

Help the entitlement of parents and students to disappear. Must earn what they think they are entitled to.

Amen. 

Friday, August 12, 2022

Welcome back to School

 By Kelly Bridgewater

How did the first week of school go?

Were the meals planned? Or forgotten?

How about school work?

Have your kids whined about the amount of homework yet?

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This year, I get to experience my second son as a senior in high school. Hopefully, he can hit all those milestones that was stolen from my first son because of COVID. Shame for the class of 2020. Trust me, he does not like me or anyone for that matter to mention prom or graduation because he had neither. The school did not even make it up later. He is still very bitter about this. And I completely agree with him.

My last year is an eighth grader. I have been homeschooling him on the weekends and evenings after work, so it is more time consuming with him, but I honestly think he does SO much better with the one-on-one instruction then the instruction with the 30 plus students in the classroom.

What about you? Anything different this year than the previous years?