seventh grade

Liz Garrigan interviews private school teacher, Alan Coverstone on his run for school board and his controversial decision to send his oldest child, who is zoned for H.G. Hill Middle School, to a private school:

Just a reminder that today is the last day for auditions for the prestigious Nashville Children’s Choir.

"Hi... Lindsay?" a woman asked me at the supermarket yesterday.

"Yes?" I asked.

"I'm Aimee Taylor," she said. "We cheered together in Junior High."

"Oh my gosh!" I said. "Wow. Hi."

"I used to see you on TV all the time when you were a reporter here," she continued, "and I always thought, 'I know her!'"

State changes requirements

From Columbia Daily Herald

Big changes are in store for students who will be entering high school soon.

I am not a scientist. Nor have I ever pretended to be a scientist. My dad is a scientist with the degrees and experience to prove it.

Just a few things this morning….

The question of the day in my mind: What the hell was this woman doing at an illegal street race at 3:40am WITH HER CHILD?

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.