Dear teachers... I apologize already

[LynnS6]

Dear teachers,

It's 8:45 on Halloween night. My children have had a bucketful of sugar. They've been up an hour past their usual bedtime. So has every other child in your class, because we saw them out trick or treating tonight.

I'm sorry. Tomorrow you're going to face 25 tired kids on sugar lows. Or maybe on sugar highs because who knows what they ate for breakfast?

[talk de jour]

Don't have kids, but had my next-door neighbor over while my DP took the neighbor's son ToTing (neighbor is a paraplegic and welcomed the chance to drink screwdrivers with me instead of toting himself over hell and high water : ) and we commiserated on this. His son goes to school 2 hours away in AM traffic (near son's mom's house) . . . this kid will have to be up at 4:30 AM. Poor kids, poor teachers! It ought to be a late start day, LOL.

[MusicianDad]

Originally Posted by LynnS6

Dear teachers,

It's 8:45 on Halloween night. My children have had a bucketful of sugar. They've been up an hour past their usual bedtime. So has every other child in your class, because we saw them out trick or treating tonight.

I'm sorry. Tomorrow you're going to face 25 tired kids on sugar lows. Or maybe on sugar highs because who knows what they ate for breakfast?

That's why I keep dd home if the day after halloween is a school day. One less headache for the teacher.

[ctdoula]

LOL!! We are in the same boat. I'm already dreading Hockey practice at 4:30 tonight......

[amma_mama]

DD's school is one of the smart ones. The day after Halloween is a student vacation day and is reserved for parent-teacher conferences. DD will be going in late to her "after school care" which is open all day for the vacation day.

[Mackenzie]

Originally Posted by MusicianDad

That's why I keep dd home if the day after halloween is a school day. One less headache for the teacher.

I would also, except Nov 2 is election day and they are out for that already *sigh*

[stefka]

LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking this morning too. I let DS sleep in a little, and when he finally woke up, he sounded like someone with a hangover. "I HATE when Halloween is on a Sunday," he pronounced. He's 6, so the only 2 Halloweens he can really remember before this one were on Friday and Saturday. His poor, poor teacher today.

It was even worse around us, since a lot of families seemed to wait until after the Giants game to head out trick or treating. We had never had 3 year olds knocking on our door at 8:45 before!

[StephandOwen]

DS was also up WAY too late last night. To top it off, we spent the weekend in Michigan and got back home less than an hour before TorT started. So we unloaded the car quickly and got ds dressed up. We took him out for a couple hours (not TorT the whole time, he spent part of the time at dp's parents house). We got back home around 8:45. He still hadn't eaten any dinner (minus a couple pieces of chocolate and some apple slices at dp's parents house). I gave him a quick shower while making a super quick dinner. He didn't fall asleep until around 10:30 last night. I had to wake him up at 7:00 to get him to school on time.

Oddly, his teacher was gone today (had scheduled vacation days for today and Wednesday, there's no school Tuesday). She's a smart one

[blizzard_babe]

A friend on FB declared today to be "Buy your child's teacher a beer after work" day.

[carmel23]

We skipped school yesterday .

[One_Girl]

This is really awful I am sure, but I am always glad it is the teacher who has the class full of kids with sugar lows by midday and not me.

[sapphire_chan]

Couldn't a lot of it be averted by a nice fatty protein breakfast?

That said, if your kid is awake and alert enough to have a good breakfast, they probably aren't going to be one of main problems for the teacher.

[LynnS6]

Originally Posted by sapphire_chan

Couldn't a lot of it be averted by a nice fatty protein breakfast?

That said, if your kid is awake and alert enough to have a good breakfast, they probably aren't going to be one of main problems for the teacher.

yes, if I'd managed to get up early enough to make that. Dh tends to make cereal. And I think that dd had Skittles for breakfast yesterday too!

Actually she did OK at school She melted down completely after gymnastics. She needed to show me how she could do a pullover on the bars in the back yard. RIGHT THEN. (It was dark and raining.) She wanted to watch the end of the World Series and was really sad that she didn't get to see innings 8 and 9 and missed the 'celebration'. She was mad that the Giants won at Texas. They should have been able to play the 5th game in San Fransisco so they could celebrate with their fans......

[sunnmama]

Ironically, the excitement and anticipation preceding ToT has a much more negative effect on my 9 yo's attitude and functioning than the candy she eats after ToT. She was up late, ate a bunch of candy, and even had some candy after breakfast before school. No problem.

I just wish I could have sent her to school for the hours BEFORE ToT (she wouldn't have given them attitude anyway....she saves that for me )

[ecoteat]

Every year that Halloween falls on a school night we teachers try to schedule a teacher workshop for the next day so that we don't have to deal with the sugar roller-coaster. It didn't work out this year, but the kids weren't too off-kilter so it was ok.