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Momfidence! cheers on commonsense parenting and sighs at the rest. How to worry less, wing it more. A.k.a. parenting by the seat of my mid-rise mom jeans.
About Paula Spencer
I'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you cannot even buy Oreos at the two groceries nearest to my home).
A rare foto in which all six Spencers face the camera! by Charles Harris
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School Weirdness in SummerJuly 15, 2008
This is the wackiest absence-of-all-human-commonsense-in-the-process situation I've read about since the kid who went to foster care because his dad didn't realize the boy's oddly-labeled lemonade contained alcohol...so I just had to point it out. Twins in Seattle assigned to different schools. And nobody steps in to say, Yes, this is a silly bureaucratic mistake, we'll fix it right away Mrs. Taxpayer.
I live near Raleigh, the fastest growing urban area in the country by some estimates, and I always wonder if all these Yankees & Californians pouring in know that Wake County Schools use a wacky formula to assign schools, so they often change from year to year and are nowhere near home. Oh for that quaint notion called neighborhood schools. If there are problems with economics they should be fixed without inconveniencing families and disrupting communities. |
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