Year Cycles Again
This school year, Zoë's taking Honors English, Honors Latin 3, Honors Math, Honors Physics, French 4, World History, and Drawing. After last year, she'd decided she did not like history and didn't want to do AP History. She'd also decided she didn't want to do honors english again. We got her schedule, and she learned she was put in honors english and decided to stick with it since she mostly liked who her classmates would be. After the first day of history she declared it horribly boring and asked if there was a way for AP History to fit in her schedule. It would require dropping out of Honors Math, so she's going to stick it out in regular history. Her teacher is new to her school, came from public school, and I suspect he's not used to having such small classes with kids who are used to pretty decent workloads. They've read very little and written only one short paper in the 2 weeks since school started. I am hopeful this history class lets Zoë enjoy it, instead of struggling to keep up with readings and papers (and constant DBQ practice). While I think AP would only have reinforced her complete dislike of history, I am worried that she's going to get bored, tune out, and bomb completely. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the teacher gets up to speed quickly.
Other than that, her schedule's fairly decent. She's frustrated she couldn't fit AP Music Theory in, but with double language that's going to be a persistent problem. She didn't want to ask about doing it self-study last year, we'll see if she gets up the courage to ask this year. Same problem with photography, it's only offered in one spot and that conflicted with honors latin. And she can't flip honors latin without losing honors math. She's not willing to give up either honors math or honors latin, so no photography for now.
She was planning on playing soccer this fall, but after the first day of try outs was completely covered in blisters from the sun so that was shelved. She considered volleyball since it's indoors. I reminded her she once tried a volleyball clinic and after a couple days decided not to return because it wasn't any fun. It's not going to suddenly become fun because it's the only indoor fall sport. She decided to give it a pass. She's not sure if she's going to do crew workouts or swim over the winter. Swim would mean getting her to school at 5am, but I suppose if that's necessary it's necessary. This is where kids not being able to drive themselves until 16 1/2 at the very youngest is a drag. The earliest we catch a break is the middle of her Junior year. I wish public transportation around here was better. Crew in the spring does make things a bit easier commute-wise since the boat house is so close to our house.
Since soccer was a no-go she'll be doing drivers ed this fall. I wanted it closer to when she could take the test for her learners permit (end of March), but she can't do weekends because of art, and evenings will be clobbered with crew workouts. We like to visit family over winter break, and she's going to be in Europe over spring break. I'll just keep my fingers crossed she remembers everything.
And she's getting the typical ease-in to the school year because with labor day, rosh hashanah, and yom kippur, they don't have a full week of school for ages.
Other than that, her schedule's fairly decent. She's frustrated she couldn't fit AP Music Theory in, but with double language that's going to be a persistent problem. She didn't want to ask about doing it self-study last year, we'll see if she gets up the courage to ask this year. Same problem with photography, it's only offered in one spot and that conflicted with honors latin. And she can't flip honors latin without losing honors math. She's not willing to give up either honors math or honors latin, so no photography for now.
She was planning on playing soccer this fall, but after the first day of try outs was completely covered in blisters from the sun so that was shelved. She considered volleyball since it's indoors. I reminded her she once tried a volleyball clinic and after a couple days decided not to return because it wasn't any fun. It's not going to suddenly become fun because it's the only indoor fall sport. She decided to give it a pass. She's not sure if she's going to do crew workouts or swim over the winter. Swim would mean getting her to school at 5am, but I suppose if that's necessary it's necessary. This is where kids not being able to drive themselves until 16 1/2 at the very youngest is a drag. The earliest we catch a break is the middle of her Junior year. I wish public transportation around here was better. Crew in the spring does make things a bit easier commute-wise since the boat house is so close to our house.
Since soccer was a no-go she'll be doing drivers ed this fall. I wanted it closer to when she could take the test for her learners permit (end of March), but she can't do weekends because of art, and evenings will be clobbered with crew workouts. We like to visit family over winter break, and she's going to be in Europe over spring break. I'll just keep my fingers crossed she remembers everything.
And she's getting the typical ease-in to the school year because with labor day, rosh hashanah, and yom kippur, they don't have a full week of school for ages.