High School – Wow
April 30, 2010
So Sean enters high school next year. Am I really that old? And has time really gone by that fast! Wow…
Even worse, we have been doing a lot of running around for both kids getting them to various events almost every day of the week. We had hoped that it would ease up a bit when they hit high school. Looks like its just going to get worse.
Yesterday, Sean went to his high school honors orientation night. Struck me as a bit odd since he still has a month to go in 8th grade. He has to make all his course selections for the next year in the next couple weeks. In addition, he wants to take what they call a Zero Hour course. Its usually athletic conditioning or band. Football summer camp also begins in a month so he wants to add in the Zero Hour course to help be in condition for sports.
For the Zero Hour course, he has to be at the school by 7:20 am. Looks like it will be me taking him to school (its 40 mins away from our house) on the way (not really) to work. So figure we leave the house around 6:30. He won’t get home from football practice until almost 7:30 pm counting the bus ride or pickup back home. So it will be quite a change for him too. Just a bit less Xbox 360 and TV time! Throw in games and other extra curricular activities, and its lots of busy times.
Guess that’s part of the price to live in the Country…
But wait… I have a kid prepping for high school??? Sheesh…
Sean “Wins” Lottery
April 22, 2010
We recently posted about Sean having to enter a lottery for his high school choice. Since we live in rural Arizona and in an area without a high school, kids get to choose which high school they want to go to. There are about 5 realistically choices in the area (ie within 45 mins) where they could go. As Suzanne alluded to in that post, Sean had picked Empire High School in Vail.
Empire is also known as Laptop High since the students have no books and generate no paper. Each student is issued a laptop and all studies, lessons, homework, tests etc are done either online or on the laptop. Its also a medium size high school being class 3 in Arizona sports categorization. Having gone to a very small K-8 school, Sean wanted a medium size school instead of a large one.
However, Empire only accepts 225 applications for admission each year. If more than that number apply, there is a lottery. This year 268 students applied, so, as Suzanne mentioned, there would be a lottery to see who was accepted.
Today, we learned that Sean was among the lucky 225 accepted into enrollment as Freshman. So, its off to Vail Empire High School next year for Sean.
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