How times change. School was something that I looked forward to, from the very beginning. Learning has always been one of my passions, and I remember when I couldn't wait to be big enough to go to the big kid's school! Life was so much simpler, with fewer worries. The biggest worry either my mother or I had on my fist day of school was making sure that I would be able to catch the right bus. Getting to school was never the problem. Mom knew exactly where to catch the bus. When mom was around there was never a worry in the world, she knew what had to be done, and how it needed to be accomplished. The big concern would come at the end of my day, when I realized that mom wasn't there, to be sure I would be able to get back on the correct bus. Today that risk could lead to terrible danger from kidnappers, drug dealers, and serious car accidents. Back then the danger came from getting news to mom that I had missed the bus, and I was stuck at the school. That of course could symbolize the end of the world. The solution -- the infamous name tag. All the kids wore them -- but what a fashion statement. They provided all the appropriate information for any new kindergartner. Name, bus number, and of course -- for those serious emergencies -- the home phone number! Back then identity theft hadn't even been invented -- so the information was proudly displayed on the front collar of each child's clothes. A must for starting school -- in what seemed like then, the big, bad, world. Oh, if only we had known then what would come.
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I remember when you used to teach school to your unappreciative younger brother and sister. I always said that is why they were so smart when they went to school. They had been taught for years before they went by you!!!!!
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