School in one of those Infinite Mirrors

[primsong]

I'm sitting here, pulling on my socks and listening to my daughter scrambling around to get ready to go to school and it occurs to me that I've been getting ready to go to school, my own or someone else's, for most of my life. 

In fact, our entire society is chock full of people of all ages whose lives are ruled by the school system's hours and we all orbit around their holidays.  Whether or not there is school and when is HUGE.  It affects families, work policies, store hours, national holidays.  Even people without kids plan their events and vacations around when school is in or out. The real estate market goes up and down around summer school vacation.  Add school events and sports and it rules the country.

I hope to be free of that tyranny of having to get up and go to a school later this year, part of why I turned down an opportunity to still work at the school library even after mine were graduated.  Dearly hope I can find a job that starts late enough I can have some mornings, lest I trade one tyranny for another and merely wish for quiet mornings until the day I die.

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[linaewen]

The ministry I'm involved in is tied in many ways to several different school systems -- both for the people we work with and the students who volunteer with us. However, since our Center doesn't open until late morning, it works out that mornings are mostly free. It is a real blessing to have several mornings free and quiet just for me, but it's a constant battle to keep it that way!