The weather was simply perfect, and the atmosphere was festive at “my” picnic last Friday.  The picnic is one of my favorites among all the various community-building events we put on each year at CWA.  For returning families, it’s an opportunity to reconnect with families they haven’t seen much since the previous school year.  For families new to the school, it’s a wonderful opportunity to meet the families of some of the students their new-to-Charles-Wright child is talking about. Read the rest of this entry »

In the week before Labor Day I noticed that a number of comic strips had the theme “Summer is about over… it’s time to go back to school.”  The typical “message” was that kids were upset and their moms were ecstatic that school was about to start. Read the rest of this entry »