School Transition Gifts

'Do I have to enter a plea?'

They were right. Life did get better after middle school.

'I'm under a lot of peer pressure!'

'Holly, listen to me. This school year is important. . . It's your last year before high school! You have to prepare! High school is a whole new ball game.'

"Just think, next year I'll be in fourth grade. I'm really going to miss the third grade...but going to the fourth grade is a wise career move for me."

"He says he's fed up of school."

'In school today, we learned about endangered species.'

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

'Are you sure I should read my book report to the class? --�It's PG-13.'

You wrote a book report on a video game instruction manual?

"I lost my taste for his homework when it came burned on a CD."

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

'Shouldn't we spend a little time on the ARTS?'

"The first day of school. Yes sir. A day to make new friends. A day to mark new beginnings. A day to discover everyone but you has grown three feet over the summer."

Don't you hate...

The lesser of two evils.

"Hey, you guys, don't you remember? The big word here is 'compromise.' "

"This is my last day. My parents found a more expensive school on the East Side."

"Rats, I thought he'd like my science project!"

'I'm trying to get my competence and my confidence in the same place.'

'Due to the record snowfall, every school on the face of the earth is closed except for Wolfbranch Elementary.'

'How could you flunk multiplication?'

"They grow up so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that he was in the third grade. Wait, it was yesterday!"

"The problem with online schooling is I can't get help from Mom and Dad!"

"Exactly how long were you home schooled?"

'I did my homework on my computer and before I could print it, it crashed.'

'Me, I'm home-schooled: Getting to and from school was taking too much of my time...'

'You're being evacuated to a better catchment area.'

Private School Interview - 'How much do your parents weigh?'

High School

"Try to fit in, Dear."

"I attribute most of my problems in the third grade to the media."

"I had it all figured out. Sleep late, watch TV, play all day...then kindergarten happened."

'Talk about being scared straight...I just found out that being held back a grade is not an urban myth.'

'You are new here, aren't you?'