6th Grade Promotion

Wednesday morning was Emily's 6th grade promotion assembly. She was recognized not only for having perfect attendance this past trimester but for the whole year as well. She got a citizenship award which they seemed to bring back for the 6th graders but not for none of the other grades for some inexplicable reason. She got recognized for reading over a million and a half words this past school year (not quite as much as her sister). She got some presidential award for outstanding academic excellence. And after two years, she finally managed to get back on the Principal's honor roll (straight A's)! We were so excited for her. She had been kind of bummed that she has only managed honor roll since accelerating a grade. She worked really hard and managed to achieve her goal. We are so proud of her.

The ceremony itself was quite irritating. They stuck all the family and guests in the sun on the downward sloping lawn so the sun was beating down on us and we could not see what was going on. To add to that, a lot of their "guests" did not follow the rules and sat in front of people with balloon bouquets so that the people in back of them could not see. In the end, I moved up to take some pictures at a certain point, only to miss it because some big woman decided to walk in front of my camera right as Emily was called up. It was so aggravating.

Auntie Marian actually took the day off to come surprise Emily. She made little ribbon lei's in her school colors for her and her closest friends. The PTA handed out candy lei's (even though candy is not supposed to be allowed at school).

Marian also got her a yearbook. She was pretty ecstatic about that and spent the rest of the day and the next getting her friends signatures and stuff. The ceremony was in the morning but then they had to stay in school for the rest of the day and the next morning as well (since the last day of school was a half day). Even though they didn't do hardly a whole lot at school the last week of school except clean up and watch movies and stuff, Caitlyn was not allowed to attend the ceremony, otherwise she would get marked "absent."

I swear that the most difficult thing about going to school is not learning but having to deal with the bureaucracy of institutions and the mean kids and their feckless parents.

Because it was just the three of us after the ceremony, Marian took us out for sushi afterwards. We had a quiet family dinner with the kids in the evening and Emily got presents to boot from Marian.