The TGD

Ed’s daughter woke up sick with three assessments due that day. She stayed home. Rested. Worried the whole time that there was no way to make any of it up without showing up before school once she was better, which felt like a punishment for having been sick in the first place. Here's where I could've just called the school. I didn't. Instead: "Email your teachers. Tell them what's going on. See what they say." She hated that answer. Sent the emails anyway. Turned out two tea

Reese is an A student. This year, she picked one class specifically to not be an A student in. She wanted a real challenge. Something hard enough that she'd have to actually build the skills we keep talking about: advocating with a teacher, asking for the accommodation instead of waiting for it, working through a rough draft instead of turning in the first one. Her stated goal going in was a C. Not because she couldn't do better. Because a C in a hard class, earned by doing t