First Day Back at School for Our Kids

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Registered: 07-19-2003
First Day Back at School for Our Kids
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Tue, 09-04-2007 - 1:56pm

Here in my area of Canada, school starts back up again today. My dd went into 11th grade and my son is enterring 7th grade. So I have two kids approaching their final years of their current schools.

Both were quite relaxed about today except for the usual "what to wear" (because dd wears a uniform at her school its "how to wear my hair" lol) and where to meet their friends. My dd usually walks to school with her friends (we are too close for bussing) but today one of the moms offered to give them all a ride as first day is usually rather busy with finding their lockers, getting their homeroom numbers etc.

Its going to be a busy semester for my dd, she has 4 rather challenging courses: World Religions, English, Dance, and Chemistry. In her arts course she is doing a "triple threat" semester where they have to learn other disciplines so besides dancing she has to do drama and voice. Everything is university/academic level so its alot of homework and a very fast pace as in the semester system she's done these courses by January and then starts another 4 courses. But she's got alot of friends in her classes and as she gets along in school, she's more and more with people who have similar interests and taking similar streams of study.

My son was funny this morning -- he's going into 7th grade and starting his self-conscious phase. He was very concerned with how he looked in his clothes (no uniform at his school) and was anxious to see how everyone had changed over the summer. At his young age, alot of kids are separated for the summer as people go to camp, vacations, etc so he's only seen 2 or 3 of his close friends. I'm very interested to hear about everything, how he likes his teacher etc.

Anyway, exciting first day...

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Thu, 09-06-2007 - 10:17pm

Well, iteadrinker, while I can't count on scholarships for all 4 years I can at least hope for one year. I happened to graduate dean's list from my university, maintaining 80 and up my entire school career. My dd gets amazing grades -- consistently honour roll -- she even tested as gifted and was offered a position in a gifted program but we refused it given it meant she had to travel quite a distance for school every day. So yeah it isn't number 1 on my list of considerations but it doesn't hurt either!!!

I can't afford for her to travel and live on campus. We don't have the money to support her in residence. So she will have to pick one of the Toronto universities for sure.

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