Educating Those Children One at a Time

Walker was out of school from Monday, February 8 through Tuesday, February 16th.  We were part of the Disney Social Media Moms Celebrate Disney and we had a blast.  I had no inhibitions at all about taking him out of school for this.  Many others didn’t get the same support from their schools and the teachers.  We are lucky in that respect. 

With that, I’m quoting my first grader’s teacher here, “It’s not like you are going down on the Alabama River camping or something.”  Exactly.  We are talking Epcot for a full day.  Magic Kingdom for two days, the ESPN Sports Center Complex, closed parks just for our little cherubs to enjoy the parks, a concert by Demi Lovato and one of the Jonas Brothers and honestly, is there a week of sitting at a desk and learning that can compare to one day at Epcot. 

Yes it was very cold but no one should ever pass up a Dole Whip, right?  

To say the least, the kid is driving me nuts with everything he learned.  So, all I can say is this, if you get an opportunity to go, especially one like I got, and you don’t get support on the local level for your child to miss school to go learn first hand what’s happening, then go up a level and continue to climb that administrative ladder.  If you have to enlist people like myself, Sara Bennett and others to make your school admin see the benefits of this education, even if it does partially include a mouse, then by all means, let me know.  I could write you a full monologue on all the wonders that we encountered.