Field Day and Stuff

Today was Field Day for FE. He had so much fun. I think I don't give the kid enough credit for being athletic. he has on older brother who is a much gifted athlete and I think I just never consider FE athletic. But he kicked butt in every event at Field Day. He jumped 6 feet in the long jump, which was at least 6 inches more than the nearest competitor. He won the 50 yard dash by 10 yards. He led his team to the relay win and he won the sack race easily. In this age group they don't give place ribbons, which is awesome, but the kid did great!

In other happenings, SB was involved in a little incident today. A girl in her class,the mean girl, had lent a book to another girl. The second girl was reading this book when she should not have been yesterday and it got confiscated by the sub. The sub left it on the teacher's desk. The teacher started thumbing through it today and realized it was a book not at all appropriate for 12 year old girls. She sent the book and it's owner to the VP's office. She then asked if anyone else had been lent a book by this girl. SB said yes she had one at home in her dance bag, but she hadn't read it yet. So, her teacher called me and told me to take a look at the book. I opened it up and was appalled!! This girl denied that she knew anything was wrong with the book and also that there was another book(the one SB had). Her mom came down and said she hadn't known anything was wrong with the book either and that there was not another book. They suspended the girl for two days. I took the other book back to school when I went for field day. The book I took back has the girl's name in it. She'll be getting an extended suspension for the second book and for lying about it. I am so glad Sb did not start this book. This is not reading material suitable to 12 year olds. The books are marketed to teens, but no way should anyone younger than 16 be reading this and I'm not even certain of that age! I am glad that my children attend a school that sees this as a serious matter to be dealt with at school since obviously this mom had no intention of dealing!