I’m at a loss here and I look to my readers with school aged children for experiences and advice…..

Got any that are past idealistic?

Every single year I drill people I know about his teachers. How are they? How much homework do they give? Are they nuturing? How long have they been teaching? How old are they? It’s endless.

But what I am really wanting to know, without sounding like a 9 year old, myself…………….

What happened to the days where you went to school with two notesbooks and a few pencils? When you covered your text books with cut up grocery bags and decorated them yourself with stickers and scribble?