school

Book bag?  Got it.  Lunch money?  Alright.  Wait a minute... What time is practice today?  Just when you think you're off the hook for 7 hours a day, reality comes rushing in.  Let's face it, school is stressful.

First there's the whole money issue.  About the time you're done buying supplies, fees, dues, activity cards and uniforms for sports, you wonder if any of your property taxes are actually going towards education. 

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September 4, 2012 is the first day of school in Twin Falls and kids are going to be everywhere.

Please remember that speed limits for school zones are enforced Monday - Friday from 7:00am - 4:30pm and the state fine for speeding in  a school zone is $150

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I realize it's still summer but we got to talking about school on the show today.  I know I'm looking forward to getting back into the school routine but there's one thing that I hate about school:  The homework!  I thought I left it behind when I graduated but when you have kids, you get to relive it all over again.  Yippee.

While I'm happy to help my kids with their work,  as much as I can (Who can remember all that math, anyhow?) I sometimes find myself doing the assignment for them.

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More and more schools are deciding to have same-sex classrooms. Middleton Elementary school in Idaho is one of 500 schools in the nation that has decided same-sex classrooms is beneficial to their education program.

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I didn't think my son's pre-school graduation would make me emotional but I honestly had to hold back the tears. Ridiculous! I felt better when I noticed other moms with glossy eyes.

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Let's call this another side effect of overdosing on Axe Body Spray.  Besides alerting the world that you're a d-bag . . . apparently, you also qualify as FLAMMABLE.

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I am probably the only mother that has no idea what she is doing when it comes to registering her child for Kindergarten. Just in case I am not the only one out there who needs information here is what I found:

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If I was a smart man, and I emphasize the word "if," I would open a laptop repair center next to every major school in Idaho. Why? Because there's about to be a lot of broken laptops in Idaho's future.

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A lot of people don't think it is a big deal to move a student schools, but if you have ever changed schools you know that it is not exactly fun. For the first two weeks you are known as the "new kid", and if the other students learn your name after that you are just plan lucky.

If you move into a school that is smaller than you are used to, you will quickly learn

2012 could be another year in which many area school districts ask voters for more money to run the schools.  Some are definitely planning on supplemental or plant facilities levies while others are definitely not.  Some are still undecided. 

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Eight Idaho schools have won $100,000 grants from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation in an effort to increase the number of kids who attend college or other post-secondary training.

The schools were chosen out of 55 after competing in several categories, including increasing the number of  students taking college preparatory exams and upper-level math and science coursework

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Every story your grandfather told you about how many miles he walked in the snow to get to school has been obliterated by what students in the Chinese village of Pili have to go through to get their learning on.

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