The Dance?
It is Jesse's second day of HS, which makes it official. All three of our kids are out of the house and in school for a good portion of the day. We be old.
We prayed and had a great deal of consternation about enrolling Jesse in this public school here. When we were young and idealistic we always said that our kids would do public school because we wanted to be a missional family that does not cloister away from the world (besides, us teach...that would be almost like child abuse).
In the light of real life school violence, size and curriculum concerns, we are not so high and mighty in our missional purity now. He was homeschooled last year and this was great for his math scores and our stress level. It was not so good for his social life.
We looked hard at the Christian school option for him. Bottom line...man is that a lot of money and these schools tend to have an "uber kid" mentality. In other words, six hours of homework every night. So, he is going to the 2700 students California Public School System mega campus.
His classes are organized in the new "block" schedule. Basically that means he has four shorter quarters in the year (app. nine weeks each) and instead of six or seven classes a day he has just four. The four class are all in 90 minute blocks. The idea is that students can focus more on each class and teachers are not crowding lessons into 45 min. segments. So far we love it. Especially for our situation involving the juggling of homework for three kids.
He has World Geo, Art, Spanish and Language. Each Monday he has one other one hour class that all Freshmen take called Advocacy. It is kind of like study hall on steroids.
Jesse reports to me that "The students seem really nice. So far I have not seen any bully types but that's probably because there are policeman in our school everywhere."
The first dance is in two weeks.
We prayed and had a great deal of consternation about enrolling Jesse in this public school here. When we were young and idealistic we always said that our kids would do public school because we wanted to be a missional family that does not cloister away from the world (besides, us teach...that would be almost like child abuse).
In the light of real life school violence, size and curriculum concerns, we are not so high and mighty in our missional purity now. He was homeschooled last year and this was great for his math scores and our stress level. It was not so good for his social life.
We looked hard at the Christian school option for him. Bottom line...man is that a lot of money and these schools tend to have an "uber kid" mentality. In other words, six hours of homework every night. So, he is going to the 2700 students California Public School System mega campus.
His classes are organized in the new "block" schedule. Basically that means he has four shorter quarters in the year (app. nine weeks each) and instead of six or seven classes a day he has just four. The four class are all in 90 minute blocks. The idea is that students can focus more on each class and teachers are not crowding lessons into 45 min. segments. So far we love it. Especially for our situation involving the juggling of homework for three kids.
He has World Geo, Art, Spanish and Language. Each Monday he has one other one hour class that all Freshmen take called Advocacy. It is kind of like study hall on steroids.
Jesse reports to me that "The students seem really nice. So far I have not seen any bully types but that's probably because there are policeman in our school everywhere."
The first dance is in two weeks.
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