All A’s!
Bug made the A honor roll! Yesterday was his first report card for the first grade. Of course, we didn’t doubt that he’d do well because the work he’s brought home has had good marks. However, he did make a few careless mistakes on two papers that landed him with an “F” on one and a “C” on the other. I wasn’t sure how they would pull down his average. He wound up with his lowest report card grade of a 95 in that subject (language).
We are super proud of him, of course. I know that right now it all comes easily. By the fourth grade when there is a ridiculous amount of homework and tougher subjects it will take a lot more from us all.
I bet you’re wondering why on earth an attachment parent like myself would care so much about grades? I support homeschooling and unschooling, especially. I am an idealist and wish the whole world would take on the ideals of unschooling. However, they haven’t yet and I am preparing my children for the rat race of the world they growing up in. I want them to have a competitive spirit. I want them to want to be at the top of their class. I want all that school outside of the home offers for them. And when they are adults, if they want to leave that rat race behind, they will have been taught the idealism that I so strongly believe in. They will know that other ways of life exist. They will know that the fast paced, competitive life is not the only way to live. But if they choose that fast paced life, they will be well prepared for it.
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