First day of school: Unforgettable, for dad, that is
Richard Lake / Las Vegas Rerview-Journal
It’s hard to pinpoint when the trouble began, but that doesn’t matter now. On Monday, my hands were shaking, and they wouldn’t stop. This made note-taking difficult.
Maybe it all began to sink in at a school event Friday, when my daughter’s new principal made one of those jokes you’re supposed to laugh at when you’re in public. And we did, all 200 or so adults in the sweltering heat.
“Daddy,” Carleigh whispered in my ear, “I don’t understand why everyone is laughing.”
You will, I thought, but thank God you’re still my baby girl and so you don’t need to worry about it right now. Soon, but not yet.
The truth is, I’d been scared to death of this day — Carleigh’s first day of kindergarten — since long before that moment last week, at the ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony for Bozarth Elementary School, one of several new schools in Clark County this year.
This place is so new that Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., at the ceremony, stumbled and hemmed and hawed and pronounced the “Bogarth” family worthy of the praise of having a school named after them.
