School News...

As I have made known the kids were redistricted to a new school for the 2008-09 year. We were being moved from a Great year round school to a lower performing traditional calendar school. We tried twice to get the school board to let them stay where they were but we were turned down both times.

Move ahead to July 10th. I went to an open house about a new school that is opening in Wake Forest for this school year called Thales Academy. They are a private school (b/c of the cap on charter schools) with grades K-5 this year and then they will add a grade each year with hopes of going through 12th grade. If you have heard of Franklin Academy in WF it is basically the same school, started by the same guy only it is not free like FA. At the open house I got a lot of info and felt like this is where the kids needed to be in school, especially Camden. There are small class sizes and a lot of individualized attention, which he would greatly benefit from. I went ahead and applied and prayed for the best.

In order for the kids to go we would need to apply for and get financial aid, something I never thought we would need until college. They also had to go through an evaluation to be accepted. They came through the evaluations with flying colors! It was just a matter of how much money would they give us.

Well, I got the call today and we got every bit that we asked for!! I have been praying that if they were meant to go to school here that the money would work out and that things would go smoothly as far as getting them in and it all worked out, God is Good! So, Camden and Grace will be starting school on Monday (21st) and they will be year round still and Grace happens to have a couple of friends from dance who will be attending too, one will be in her class. We won't have to worry about the EOG with Camden b/c they do not use it, yeah!! Pray that they adjust well as it is a different curriculm where they are taught a grade level ahead of where they are, that they will make new friends and have a great year. Now we have to go buy uniforms before Monday but at least we won't have arguements about what they are going to wear anymore:)

I will update their progress after they have been in school for a couple of weeks!