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Nina had a big adventure on her first day of school. Too big. The journaling is included after the pictures.
The journaling reads:
On Nina’s first day of kindergarten I was nervous, but not a real wreck like I had heard some of the new moms were. I parked the car, took her into her classroom and waited until she had found a seat, greeted the teacher, and told Nina I would be back to pick her up at 5:10 PM. That’s right, my kid was supposed to be in the school’s after care program.
I’m not a worrier, but maybe I should have been. When I went to pick her up at the end of the day, they sent me to the principal’s office. It seems her teacher, Miss Svetkovich, had PUT HER ON THE BUS and SENT HER HOME.
We put the story together a little bit at a time. Nina told Miss S. that she wasn’t supposed to go on the bus, but they wouldn’t listen to her. It is a cruel truth. Nobody listens to you when you’re a kid.
When she got off the bus on Javert, (a busy cross street from our avenue), she was able to find our street and walk down it. When she got to our house, she said, “There’s nobody home.” A big 4th grade boy from down the street offered to let her go to his house with him. His mom called the school and Miss S. rushed over and brought Nina back to school.
The principal apologized profusely (I’ll bet she was afraid we’d sue them!), and so did Miss S., but of course I had seen Nina before I heard what they had done. Yikes, here was a kid who really never went outside alone before and who knows what might have happened?
In the meantime, the boy she went home with had left a note on the door with a piece of partially used notebook paper. It said something like, “We have your girl at our house at the end of the street.” Sam got home before we did, and saw the note. He was determined not to panic, but there were knives and guns drawn on the back! But it wasn’t on the door, it was just on the porch, so it might have just blown up there, you see? He was mighty glad to see us pull in 5 minutes later.
Nina has had many adventures in her public school career, but this one is the first, and the biggest one I know about!
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