Surprise! School is starting!

And it is a surprise.

Today I read that the government insists that every school, public and private, begin on August 21st. This means the teachers must return next week, a week earlier than they had expected, and the children will come the following week.

We are flexible. We can do it. The way it usually happens here, anyway, is that the kids will drift in over the first two to three weeks. The first days of school usually have very few students attending. In a way it is good that we start early. That way, by the time we were planning to start, perhaps most of our students will have shown up!