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Jan. 28th, 2014 04:20 pmOur heat is back. Whew! It was getting reeeeeally cold around here with the thermostat set so low!
So today I had a meeting with my 16YO and the counselor. They have four counselors at the high school, one assigned to each class, which I kind of like, since it means that one counselor gets to know the kids and can oversee their total progress. As part of that, each kid and parent has to meet with the counselor to sign up for next year's classes. Sigh. I get the feeling we keep jamming the poor woman's mind. We moved from a school with trimesters to a school with semesters, and they are veeeeery tied up over how many hours your backside sits in a class here. As a result, I've now had two discussions over the required speech class that my son took in 9th grade (as a trimester class, in which he gave the same number of speeches they give here in a semester). They decided to count it. Again. He is also off track on math, and the class he needed didn't even show up on the schedule, and we had to write it in. (He started algebra in 7th grade and they don't start until 8th here.) And then there's the whole bit about PE. PE was required in jr. high but NOT high school in Idaho. Here, you need 1.5 credits of it. We don't know how long we'll be here (the tenure track search that was on when we came was nixed by the new provost, and while it sounds like the department would still like my husband to be around to cover their classes, it really all depends on the administrators who are several levels removed.) So what happens if we move somewhere where they require PE every semester, all four years? It would be really stupid if my kid had As in every advanced AP class, but couldn't graduate because some school in the past didn't have PE... At any rate, I need to train my kids not to confuse counselors by suggesting we might move. Yes, it's a reality. But people who have never lived outside a 90-mile radius get really confused by things like that. Sigh.
Well, anyway, he has some classes picked out for if we're here next year.
So today I had a meeting with my 16YO and the counselor. They have four counselors at the high school, one assigned to each class, which I kind of like, since it means that one counselor gets to know the kids and can oversee their total progress. As part of that, each kid and parent has to meet with the counselor to sign up for next year's classes. Sigh. I get the feeling we keep jamming the poor woman's mind. We moved from a school with trimesters to a school with semesters, and they are veeeeery tied up over how many hours your backside sits in a class here. As a result, I've now had two discussions over the required speech class that my son took in 9th grade (as a trimester class, in which he gave the same number of speeches they give here in a semester). They decided to count it. Again. He is also off track on math, and the class he needed didn't even show up on the schedule, and we had to write it in. (He started algebra in 7th grade and they don't start until 8th here.) And then there's the whole bit about PE. PE was required in jr. high but NOT high school in Idaho. Here, you need 1.5 credits of it. We don't know how long we'll be here (the tenure track search that was on when we came was nixed by the new provost, and while it sounds like the department would still like my husband to be around to cover their classes, it really all depends on the administrators who are several levels removed.) So what happens if we move somewhere where they require PE every semester, all four years? It would be really stupid if my kid had As in every advanced AP class, but couldn't graduate because some school in the past didn't have PE... At any rate, I need to train my kids not to confuse counselors by suggesting we might move. Yes, it's a reality. But people who have never lived outside a 90-mile radius get really confused by things like that. Sigh.
Well, anyway, he has some classes picked out for if we're here next year.
