Tacie made it home safely on Monday. Dad was able to take her all the way onto the plane in Milwaukee. Bruce was waiting at the gate for her here in Atlanta. On the plane she got to sit in the front passenger seat next to a lady pilot. The stewardess and pilot both talked to her and made her feel comfortable on the flight.Tacie and Charlie have been getting reacquainted although we need to take him back to obedience training class. No one is more pleased than Talia to have her sister home. Bruce has taken the girls to Six Flags today! They just rode the new roller coaster. They want to get to White Water (a water park) too before school starts a week from today.
Although we have to return to school August 10, I like the school schedule we have. We still have just 180 days of school/year. The girls get a whole week off at Thanksgiving and 2 weeks off for the Christmas break. They'll get a spring break in April and school ends May 26. The school board even considered an extra week off in February and finishing out the school year June 2; I would have liked that even better. We would love to have a winter vacation to go skiing and snowboarding. We prefer not to take the girls out of school for vacation.Speaking of school boards. Cobb county tried to purchase laptops for every teacher in the county and every child in middle and high school to use. They made a deal to get them for $235 each. They are trying to bridge the technical divide that occurs with some families being able to afford computers and others not. Tacie was very excited. Unfortunately, some busybodies decided to bring a suit against the county and now just teachers are getting the computers. There had been a special 1% sales tax in the county for school improvements and to "upgrade school computers" and the judge decided that it didn't mean laptops. I think it was a little fuzzy. Now the county has to pay the court costs of over $100,000. That would have paid for a lot of computers! Who profited from this? Not the children, certainly.
