Continuing with memorable stories in 14 years, A-Z:
K is for kindergarten
Several years ago, I had the chance to chat with a high school friend who now lives in Portland. My friend was incensed about a tuition kindergarten program where she lives that she believed discriminated against low-income children by charging for the class, making it impossible to go to their neighborhood schools.
A teacher asked me the other day if we might come to cover something in her classroom. What elements, she asked, do we consider when making our decision? What, if anything, could she do to tip the balance in her favor?
Continuing here with interesting stories I’ve had, A-Z, in the 14 years I’ve been here. We’re on to “D” now.
We are on to “C” in my A-Z coverage of interesting stories I’ve come across in 14 years.
Interesting stories I’ve covered, A-Z, in 14 years, continued. We’re now on “B.”
I was hired as a reporter here at the Albany Democrat-Herald on Oct. 25, 1995. Time done broke some speed records since then, brothers and sisters.
I’ve had the pleasure to write about some really interesting stuff in those 14 years. Having passed my anniversary date, for the next few days I’m going to reminisce a little, alphabetically.
Behold: The Lunchboxes!
Cute. Plastic. Easy to clean. Relatively cheap.
I think I’ll turn to eBay for all my school cafeteria needs.
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Press release I received today:
“Baking Contest Highlights 6th Annual National Punctuation Day, September 24
“National Punctuation Day stresses literacy for children and adults. Bake a cookie, cake, pastry, doughnut, or bread in the shape of a punctuation mark and become famous!
Hear ye, o my readers, and hearken unto my tale of woe, that you may hear the proverb of the lunchboxes and become wise.
Photographer Jesse Skoubo and I had cooked up a nefarious plot last evening to unveil to the world the unbelievable back-to-school shopping choices in the mid-valley. Our weapon? The most controversial photo we could think of: a mom and a kindergartner in the paper-and-pencil aisle of some office-supply giant.
Yes, I admit it! We intended to show, for good and all, that the new school supply lists are here! That shelves are practically overflowing with highlighter pens and protractors! That people are – wait for it – buying crayons!
