this is, against all odds, good news
I have learned, through years of practice I didn't ask for, to read any headline involving my kid's school district with the same resigned energy I'd bring to a voicemail from the school's main line. So it says something that I got all the way to the end of this one without flinching once.
if you're in the middle of it — the slow mornings, the sunday evenings, the conversations with the school that don't go the way you needed them to —
this is for you.
get a note in your inbox each week. no advice you haven't already tried. just a parent who's in it too, and the occasional thing that's actually helped.