Dad glad his kids are in city schools

“Because I Said So” column for The Commercial Appeal

August 20, 2009

I registered my kids for school almost two weeks ago. It takes no less paperwork to buy a house than it does to register three children for the Memphis City Schools system. I’m not even sure what I signed, I may very well have contracted them away into indentured servitude.

(That is not a complaint.)

The kids began their new schools last week, Richland Elementary and White Station Middle. By all reports, the first week was a success, although those are the reports of my kids themselves and not their teachers … (read more)