Early Morning

The sky looks like a Photoshop gradiant...from a gray blue green to a pinkish red orange above the dark silhouette of hills. It is cold out so the cats are not ready to escape the house. It is going to be a clear day.

Hailey came home from the nurse's office yesterday. I don't think she is still sick but it is going to be hard to get her back to school. Am going to try again this morning. She is behind in her work and is very stubborn. She missed so much school in 6th grade that she almost didn't go on to 7th. The school was upset with me and threatened to turn us over to the sherrif's office if I didn't turn things around. After that she had to go to school even if sick and only if the nurse sent her home could she miss. Last year she only missed two days. Next year she will be in high school. Things are different here than in most places. We have a very large high school district that covers many smaller seperate elementary districts. When my mama went to high school here there was only one high school...that was Grossmont. By the time I went to high school there were two more added then a fourth. The last year my sister was in high school they had opened a fifth high school here in Lakeside. I have no idea how many schools they have now...more than ten.

A few years ago they wanted to separate the high school district and turn the high schools over to the local elementary districts to run. The problem is money. The areas the district covers has some places that are very well off and other places a lot less valuable. So the elementary districts wouldn't all have the same tax money coming in and that would mean some high schools would have a lot more money than they do now and some would have a lot less. So the system we have now is not likely to change over.

Well it is almost time to get Hailey up and moving...

Back again...after some grumbling Hailey is off to school. She says she is going to the nurse and call me to come get her but I told her to stay there! So we will see.