Back to School Night

Written by Mary Stephenson

If you had told me a year ago that I would be going to school more in the next year than I have done over the previous 30, I would say “no way“.

But here we were again at Sycamore!

This time we were invited by Susanna Winstead, Sycamore School principal, to help serve chicken taco salad dinner on August 23rd.  About 5 PM we arrived and remained until 6:30.

Students and parents came to have dinner and then meet with the teachers afterwards.  Great way to get parents involved with their children’s school.

I can see a big difference with the way children are in this school compared to a number of other schools we have visited through the vision screening.

Having kids line up in a straight line without talking, walking to where they need to go and acting more mature than kids twice their age is pretty awesome.

Serving them food in this school has been a true joy.  Children have been taught to look at you and say “no thank you” or “yes please“.  Even ones that have not mastered these skills completely have still mastered a skill of politeness.  No comment about how they don’t like “tomatoes” or the such and just a quick shake of their head indicating they don’t want something.  Much easier to accept than a commentary on how they hate certain foods.