My son came home on the last day with a backpack weighing more than he does.
Inside was every worksheet, drawing, math packet, half finished booklet, and mystery scrap of construction paper from the entire year.
I respect his work. I do. But why did the school store it for nine months just to transfer the disposal decision to me?
He wants to keep all of it. Including a spelling test with a 42 and a picture of what might be a horse or a regional weather event.
I saved a few things and put the rest in recycling after bedtime.
He asked this morning where his “school memories” went. So now I am apparently a history destroyer.
Let him choose ten things. If he cannot choose, the weather horse goes first.
My mother kept one folder per grade. ONE. We have lost our way.
We send it home because schools cannot legally become long term storage units for 600 macaroni projects.
Not the 42 spelling test being part of the archives 😭
Keep more than you think. My oldest is 23 and I wish we had saved a few ordinary worksheets, not just the perfect art.
I take pictures of the cute stuff, keep maybe five pieces, and recycle the rest with the confidence of a woman hiding evidence.
Delayed recycling is the most accurate phrase ever written.