Go in Peace.

Piggybacking on the good memories from grade school courtesy of Chris Nolan, I have a secret to tell you, Blog.  My kids ain't going to no Catholic School.

Word.  Perhaps you have not realized I was a teacher, and am now a writer.  The two careers where people die of starvation.  So the kiddos go to the public school.  But actually, I have taught at Catholic schools and public schools and many public schools are excellent.  And I have been very pleased with H and T's education thus far.  But you know what this means, Blog.  CCD.

Cross Contamination Disease?  No.  Continuing Catholic... Disease.  I have no idea what CCD stands for.  Hold up.  Um, okay I was not prepared for this: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.  Thank you, Google.  Also: Colony collapse disorder, Community College of Denver and last but definitely not least Congenital chloride diarrhea.  Sometimes, I am not prepared for where the Internet takes me.  Honestly, I can be all pigtails and lollipops let me look up how to toss a salad and holy smokes....

Any way, about the holy smokes, what happened was Mama was a little late on the get-go with CCD. I had to find a friendly church and taste various baked goods at many different diocesan bake sales  to get all situated and the fact of the matter is:  H and T are in the same class.  Normally, H would be a couple of years or a year ahead.  But it's Sunday school and it's for two hours every week and they watch an enormous amount of Veggie Tales.

But see what this does, Blog, is it narcs poor Ted out.  Man, Helen cannot WAIT to tell me if Ted had to go to the "source" room.  I have never asked him what this is; I just assume it's a room with medieval torture devices.  We are paying them, of course.  But Sunday school is a little bit "softer" than Ted's regular classroom.  As I have told you before, in his regular education classroom, he has his charts and his visual aids for guiding proper behavior. Sunday school is more a fly by the seat of your pants operation.  I am pretty sure his teacher has one move and it's called send Ted to the source room.

So I get their progress reports a couple of months ago which basically say, thanks for showing up and therefore you don't go to Hell.  But, they are both handed to me at the same time from the same teacher and one has all the check boxes in the excellent column with comments "Helen is a delight to have in class.  She is always participating and listening carefully."  Then, I open Ted's.

You aren't even going to believe it but she has ADDED a column at the end AFTER "incomplete" that says in her handwriting "needs improvement" and she has marked an x all down her new makeshift column.  No comments.  Well, it's probably hard to comment on him if he is always in the source room, lady.  Yikes.