Red Ribbon Week

It's Red Ribbon Week in the girl's school this week. Monday they wear all red, Tuesday is jeans, Wednesday is team day, Thursday is hat day and Friday is sweats day. This week is designed to help the kids learn of the dangers of drugs. Great concept. But both kids came home without any spelling words for the week. When asked why, I was told by both of them, we have a busy week with the Red Ribbon stuff. What????? So teach them about drugs but don't keep learning the important things, like reading and writing? Doesn't that seem bass ackwards to you? I love our school district, really I do, but sometimes public schools make little sense to me. Like they waste a lot of time on things that are just not important at all. But anyway.