A liitle school joy

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to share how happy I am with the choice I made for my RSS daughter

Destiny's education. I chose a home-based charter school. Much of the work is

on-line which she loves and the teacher comes to our house once a week to review

and set up the following week's lesson plan. She is also available by cell-phone

for questions that may arise.

Her teacher is terrific! She let Destiny take the first-grade placement test

instead of kindergarten. Destiny scored as having mastered 90 percent of the

first grade curriculum in both language arts and math so she gets to do the

first grade work with a focus on those areas she didn't master, read books at

her above sixth-grade reading level and move on to the second grade material as

soon as she is ready.

The school I was zoned for only offered me some vague ideas about sending her to

an older class for reading after we " wait and see " what the teacher thinks and

some blah blah blah about social development that I have many other ways to

address. I couldn't see sending my 37lb kid to a second grade class for any good

reason when she's already about a head shorter than most kindergarteners.

So far I LOVE this, even being a single working parent, we have managed to work

the required weekly minutes around my very eclectic work schedule. Her taekwondo

classes count for PE. I know exactly how she's doing and am gaining daily

insight into how my child thinks. Also I get to design some activites for her

suited to her interests. And best of all....NO HOMEWORK (lol). Seriously, I have

already raised two normal sized academically gifted kids and my artistically

talented son is still in highschool. Even though they were identified by the

school district there was very little offered to them that meet their needs. Now

I have the double challenge of little body, big brain and I don't have to fight

with a school district, (just occasionally with my five-year-old who thinks math

is boring). Hooray!