But like me, my granddaughter wanted a good grade.
Now my granddaughter is beginning fourth grade and would never play dolls with her grandmother, but I think there is still time to influence her behavior.
So there I stood at the front of my granddaughter Jessica's fourth-grade classroom, still as a glazed dog, while Jessie introduced me to her classmates, to whom I was about to speak.
In San Francisco, my granddaughters were attending a grade school that, I have to admit, had some similarities to P.S. 3, except that it had a Spanish immersion program that both of them were enrolled in.
Carolyn Glazer said her granddaughter, who is in the sixth grade, was upset that she missed out on the program simply because a few parents had complained.
For many parents and more than a few students, there are the persistent thoughts of "what if?" "There's no reason we couldn't have been there at that time, too," said Betty Ordonez, whose granddaughter, Jordan Zepeda, is also in third grade at Mesa Verde.
My granddaughter is a homework burnout in second grade.
The phone number would be used when the granddaughter calls one of her dance teachers to find out what her final grade was on a dance test.
The revealing piece accused the sororities of racism after a potential recruit with high grades, who was also the daughter of a state senator and granddaughter of a trustee did not receive a bid from any of the 16 sororities during recruitment.
One day, a playmate of my second granddaughter approached me and asked that I assist her with her schoolwork so she could finish third grade.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
