Back to Kindergarten. Again.

Here’s your scenario:  You have child or grandchild who will turn 5 years old on the exact earliest day he or she could legally start Kindergarten.  One day earlier and there would be a mandated year’s wait.   What kind of decisions will you be making or advising as to whether he or she should start […]

Starting School at 5, 6, 7, or 8?

“You can’t start school at 7 years old.  You can’t make that time up.” So says Missouri state legislator Ian Mackey, from St. Louis County.  Rep. Mackey is a lawyer, but he has experience as an early childhood educator, both here in the Ozarks, where he was raised, and while earning his JD.  He appears […]

Mrs. Schumacher and My Brother

Previously, I mentioned my 8th grade math class, fearlessly led by our beloved Mrs. Schumacher.  We discussed an extra credit Bonus Problem the class had gotten.  None of us had gotten the problem, partly because it’s easily solved by some algebra, which we hadn’t had. I made the case then that we could have gotten […]