I am so excited. I cried last night I was so excited.
I've posted about issues with our kids' school in the past. We have lots of them. My kids struggle in their classes - they make A's, but get very bored, cause disruptions.
They HATE HATE HATE the boring worksheets that are the same repetitive material all week. Zachary's science class is doing worksheets - the same ones (new/different material each week) worksheets. Monday is a vocabulary list of science words. This week it is parts of a plant. Monday was fill in the blank defintions. Tuesday, those same words were in a "find a word" sheet. Wednesday, it was a crossword puzzle. Thursday it was a review worksheet, the same "study guide" fill in the blank defintions they got on Monday. On one hand, I agree that repitition is important. On the otherhand, sitting doing these worksheets is BORING for my kids - they aren't learning something new, and they zip through them in 3 minutes, and then have lots of time to talk and be disruptive. They aren't challenged.
Anyway, a while back I had posted that we had applied to the school system's "magnet" school (they said that they don't use that term), the "Academy for Advanced Studies". They took the test for it in January. Acceptance is based on openings available, and then test rankings. I was worried because I had heard that 4th grade was a hard grade to enter (this year they have three 3rd grade classes and only two 4th grade classes). They don't have another classroom to add another class, and squeezing the three 3rd grade classes into two 4th grade classes would mean if there were any openings, there were few. I also had heard that there were very very few applications for next year's 3rd grade class.
Given those two bits of information, I was worried that even if they both scored really well, that Philip may get in and Zachary not, because of space constraints. And I can't have them at 2 different schools - logistically it wouldn't work.
We got our letters yesterday. I was on the phone with Chris when I opened them. I cried when I read the first line of each letter to him "Congratulations, Zachary/Philip has been accepted...".
Of course, this means that I am not buying another single uniform shirt this year, and they are starting to get holes in some of their shirts. I commented this weekend that I needed to go get a few new uniform shirts. Won't do that now. They had better make the ones they have now last. Even if it means I'm washing every night for the next day but the end of the school year. I'll have to buy ALL new uniform shirts next year.
I go next week to do registration. I need to gather up the latest report cards, and their gifted program IEP's because the school wants copies of those.
