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Calling all DADs…

There are multiple opportunities to volunteer, mentor, and participate in our learning community daily…being involved is a special part of the LME family experience after all!  One unique daily volunteerwordleopportunity involves our DADs (Dads Assisting Daily) during morning arrival.  If you can smile, shake hands, give high-fives, share positive words of morning encouragement, and help others get their school day going, then we need you!  Come by any morning about 7:15, get your badge from the front office, and join the safety patrol and staff members on duty until 7:45 a.m. to meet and greet our learning community.  We run two drop-off lines each morning for convenience and we need you!  Special thanks to Dale McCaskill who started this great program three years ago (even though the boys have moved on, come by to join us or drive thru and sing to us anytime).  Thanks to our new SRO, Officer Ray Hall, for assisting each week as your schedule allows too.

Just like our enrollment, we look forward to growing this program even more in the year ahead!

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Moms and Dads

The most interesting conversation ensued the other day while assisting a small group of learners with some tough conversational questions during lunch time.  This group was discussing moms and dads as one student interviewed them (and in order to protect the innocent and their honest responses I’m choosing not to divulge much else here):

Why do we have moms and dads?

  • To help us clean our rooms
  • To take out the trash in their robe
  • Mostly to keep me in line and stuff like that ’cause I’m not ready to be on my own just yet…

What’s the difference in moms and dads?

  • Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have the real power ’cause that’s who I have to ask if I want something.
  • It depends on who wears pants that day.
  • Moms work at work and at home; dads just go to work and do chores.
  • Moms give medicine cause dads don’t read ‘constructions’ on anything.

If you could change something about mom or dad, what would it be?

  • Get rid of those eyes in the back of her head…scary, really scary.
  • I would make them smarter then they would know it was my brother who did it and not me all the time.

I love my work with learners; they never cease to amaze me in their responses (and I can hardly wait to see what they say about our Miller staff)!  Thanks, moms and dads, for sharing your most valuable resource with us everyday at LME!   🙂