Rhonda Present's blog

“Rosa sat, so Martin could walk. Martin walked, so Obama could run. Obama [ran], so our children can fly.”

The moment my now 10-year-old daughter started kindergarten, I knew that school schedules were a missing piece of the work/family puzzle. From the assemblies at 11:00 a.m. that only a handful of parents can attend to the countless days when children are off or released early from school, sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re living in the 21st century.