Swimming in the Pensieve

Kellyann Garcia just called-over from Robinson to ask if she really should un-enroll the girls from the school. With palpable ambivalence, I told her that she should.

This is definitely the best thing to do for the girls. LBUSD has sold, and will continue to sell, them short because of their giftedness–along with some insane pseudo-policy which forbids grade-skipping. While I won’t miss the larger, and very lumbersome, entity of LBUSD at all; I will miss certain people employed by LBUSD quite a bit.

I don’t deal very well with severing ties with good people–especially good people with whom I’ve had quite a bit of shoulder-to-shoulder contact with over a number of years. The fact that these folks are forced to work in less than desirable circumstances matters not one bit. Most of them do their jobs humanely, and with a good measure of common sense. They probably hate LBUSD as much as I do at times.

Some people, on the other hand, are too enthusiastic about the task of boot polishing instead of education our children; and are thus, quite forgettable. It is those administrators and fawning boot-licks who should be fired, when the district finds themselves in the ‘enrollment defecit’ situation that they are setting themselves up for.

It’s inevitable. Just wait and see. In about two decades, school districts like LBUSD will be a thing of the past.

It is the former type of person, as I alluded to Kellyann, we will miss sorely; and there are many such folks at Robinson–herself included. We will, however, have time enough to chat with this group when we drop-off boxes of books for Donna, in Room B.

I’m having a brass Visitor’s Pass made up just for such occasions. No sense in settling for one of those chintzy paper and glue things, is there?