morning bell

Jeff Atwood’s daughter, Suzie, is physically and intellectually challenged. She rides the proverbial “short bus” to school. And that is how Jeff refers to it, the Short Bus. But Suzie is getting older and will soon be in middle school. It was in middle school (or junior high as many of us knew it) that Jeff has some troubling memories of the Short Bus:

Tomorrow Suzie and a bunch of her Learning Lab friends are headed out on a field trip. They are all hopping on the Short Bus over to the middle school. The middle school part alone is enough to make me vomit.

But she and her friends are going over to the middle school to check things out. To begin the transition process. And I am glad they are doing this. Thrilled they are doing it. Because it is absolutely the right thing for Suzie and her friends.