May 14, 2004

The sound of silence.

Neither of my boys are home.
Mark has been going to Mikey's almost every afternoon because he is growing up and wanting to be away from me and Sebastian loves to stay afterschool with his teacher and do more work.
Ms. Compton is the most dedicated teacher on the frigging planet.
She goes in early and stays late every single day to help kids with their work.
Having trouble with fractions? Come see me afterschool.
Every day.
I need to think of something nice to do for her for the end of the year as a thank you.
She goes above and beyond in my opinion and has helped Sebastian so much.
He is achieving his academic goals because of her.
He has a speech problem in case you didn't know.
He has always had a problem with s's and r's and has been in speech therapy since kindergarten.
Every year the school sends me a letter letting me know he can get a scholarship to a special needs school in town because his speech labels him disabled.
Every year I turn it down.
He is not disabled.
He just needs to slow down when he talks and then the words form perfect. He just likes to talk a lot and fast.
He gets A's and B's because of this teacher and next year he won't have her anymore. That's going to be tough on him. All her extra attention on her students is not what they get in middle school.
I don't have money to buy her a gift so I was thinking of baking something.
Any suggestions?
School gets out on the 25th.