More high school stuff...
A couple of you mentioned community colleges in my other post about the older boy going to high school. We don't have any 'community colleges', but there are two 'tech schools' which offer classes locally. Neither will take a student who does not have a high school diploma or GED. There is a four-year religious college and two universities locally. The universities will take early entry students. Don't know if the religious college does, but there's no way I can afford the tuition. I'm looking into getting the boy admitted to the early entry program at NDSU, but he needs to take his SAT first, which will happen this fall.
But really, the big problem is that the older boy wants to go to high school and be around people his own age. He doesn't want to go to college. He seems to think that somehow, he can do things so that he'll fit in and his teachers will be okay with him. In the two years he was at his other school, he's forgotten how nasty they were to him. He seems to be blaming everything on the school psychologist. (Whom he nicknamed the "psychopath"ologist.)
I have tried to tell him that I took college classes and that the college students were far nicer to me than my fellow classmates were. My profs seemed to be more helpful and encouraging than my high school teachers. This is one of those things that's coming from me, however, so I think he doesn't believe it...or thinks I don't know what I'm talking about.
As far as the web design class goes, I have decided not to push the issue and am going to let him take it through independent study. I don't know how things are going to go with him in school, and I don't want to push to get him into a class only to find that he decides he's not happy with it and starts acting out...or does remember how bad it is and ends up dropping.
I am amused, though, that I'm getting calls from the school to remind me that he needs to pick up his schedule before school starts on Wednesday. He's getting back tomorrow, and we already arranged for him to take care of those things on Wednesday morning. Still, the calls are coming.
But really, the big problem is that the older boy wants to go to high school and be around people his own age. He doesn't want to go to college. He seems to think that somehow, he can do things so that he'll fit in and his teachers will be okay with him. In the two years he was at his other school, he's forgotten how nasty they were to him. He seems to be blaming everything on the school psychologist. (Whom he nicknamed the "psychopath"ologist.)
I have tried to tell him that I took college classes and that the college students were far nicer to me than my fellow classmates were. My profs seemed to be more helpful and encouraging than my high school teachers. This is one of those things that's coming from me, however, so I think he doesn't believe it...or thinks I don't know what I'm talking about.
As far as the web design class goes, I have decided not to push the issue and am going to let him take it through independent study. I don't know how things are going to go with him in school, and I don't want to push to get him into a class only to find that he decides he's not happy with it and starts acting out...or does remember how bad it is and ends up dropping.
I am amused, though, that I'm getting calls from the school to remind me that he needs to pick up his schedule before school starts on Wednesday. He's getting back tomorrow, and we already arranged for him to take care of those things on Wednesday morning. Still, the calls are coming.