On my first day of high school, going into math class, two of my classmates pointed and laughed at me.
At just before midnight, on what had become a frenzied evening, I was able to calmly relax for my three hour nap knowing that I would be home when my girls got out of school the next day.
This is a skill that I am still working on, but am making progress through the people I see every day, including my parents, friends and school counselors.
The day I came home from school and my father told me we would soon take a trip across the Atlantic is one of my most vivid childhood memories.
At any rate, for what it's worth, as both a stay at home mother until my sons were in high school and then a four-day-a week office manager to a plastic surgeon I have experienced both sides of the equation.
When my then-second-grade son came home from school one day upset with his teacher I asked him why.
As it grew near the end, and time to return to school, I prepared her day by day for my departure.
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This appeal has never been about money, but about protecting the children in my care and my right to speak out about what I witnessed at school that day.
In my day, you could actually start playing a sport in high school and do just fine.
In a few hours, my children will get up and get dressed for the first day of school.
And I'm entirely relaxed that I am rapidly heading towards a day when I will be doing my embarrassing Dad dance at school discos.
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And it was dad who helped me move into my new Philadelphia home following law school on what was a record breaking hot day even though I am fairly certain that he wanted me to come back home to NC.
"My biggest mistake was when I turned up at school wearing my uniform when it was supposed to be a non-uniform day!"
"My eldest sister, Rebecca, came home crying after her first day of school because there were two other Rebeccas in the class, " she said.
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So now my day would include not only taking my son to the dentist after school, but also taking him shopping, and then cooking dinner for eight.
Throughout this process, I figured out that no matter how bad of a day I had at school, I could come home and create my own world within the music.
Every day, I mean, we have - not just the instructors in my school, but other city colleges of Chicago that - they feel that it's not restricted opportunity.
While I know the school district wanted to ensure I drop my child off two hours late on a snow day, I already knew that before I went to bed.
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That day, as always, I walked into the clinic after school to begin my shift, only to have a co-worker tell me I was to go immediately to talk with the office manager.
And still, as I write this, I can hear my kids outside my home office, laughing as they play freeze tag and hide and seek, enjoying another day off school.
Working with a terrific group of colleagues to shape a business school for the future, I have an opportunity almost every day to try out some of my ideas about leading and energizing talented knowledge professionals and experts.
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