Everything was going perfectly.
The meeting with the teachers and the stakeholders had been flawless. The building looked beautiful. The new students were at their orientation sessions in their classrooms. The real first day of school would be tomorrow, but I felt that it was important to have the actual kids on the premise today. They loved it. And their energy was radiating throughout the building and around the grounds.
I could feel it, how great an environment this was going to be to learn. How much they’d get out of it, going to a school like this, and being in an inter-pack setting.
I’d been feeling pangs of emotion all morning.
A significant part of me wished my pup could got to school here.
I could see it. A kid who looked like me wearing a backpack too big for them—my he
