I don't often get exasperated over Quest, but I am today. I don't understand why our school's own faculty seem to thing they can break up our team and spoil the integrity of Quest whenever they wish without any consideration for the impact their plans have on our tent groups, cook groups and hike groups. Twenty one kids are going out for one reason or other and each absence sends ripples through the whole group.
Do they have all the tent components? How will we arrange rides? Can parents actually find our campsites? What about meals and supervision? I've spent four hours on the phone tonight with one call after another. Why did they wait till two days before? Only two of the calls related to something that happened today.
County championships for tennis were not just announced today for Thursday. But the kid just revealed his plans today. Several student leaders are leaving early for prom, but only two have told us. One coach pulled a girl out of Thursday's hike today to maybe play softball on Thursday. We knew about the County Music festival months ago, so we could deal with that. However, a last minute dinner concert for an awards ceremony really is screwing us up. Then there's dance rehearsals and recitals
Three girls dropped out. We expected the one from Cassadaga would drop because of her injured toe. Another decided it wasn't for her. Certainly understandable considering the horrible weather we had. And the third dropped today. It's ok. They did all the classes and two hikes. That's more than most and they can be very proud of what they accomplished.
I'm sure more will happen before I print the new roster on Wednesday morning.
Steve gets very aggravated and wants the kids to make choices. I'm not entirely comfortable with that philosophy. I figure that an interrupted or abbreviated experience is better than none at all. I suspect most kids would not chose Quest over some of these other events because it's not as familiar or easy as others. That's probably why I'm making all these special arrangements.
All of this is incredibly trivial compared to the president revealing classified information to the Russians in their private meeting. He betrayed a close ally. Will any nation ever trust us enough to share any information again?
On a positive note, I had a lovely Mother's Day weekend. Flowers and long conversations with my boys, a bit of shopping, lots of gardening, eating out, sleeping in. Very grateful to be their mom.
No comments:
Post a Comment