Sick and Schooled

[elfs]

I continue to be sick. This is highly annoying. At first I had what the local doctors are calling "The hundred-day cough," because it resembles pertussis, but lots of people who have been recently vaccinated, like me, seem to be catching this variant of whatever it is. I'm about thirty days into that, and now I have a really nasty headcold, the classic autumn kind, with sore throat, froggy voice, cough and the rest. I'd really like a breather.

I went with Stormy to the school open-house yesterday at her high school. Unlike the private schools to which we send Kouryou-chan, the public school system is highly fractured in how it educates your children: three of the teachers use one public grade distribution system approved and supported by the school, two use another approved but not supported by the school, and one doesn't use either. One teacher hands out assignments by posting them to twitter. Three teachers used powerpoint slides. Contacting parents and keeping them up-to-date is a very ad-hoc and unstructured system, with no systemic guidelines. It's very chaotic, and it puts a lot of time sink pressure on parents to get all of the classes in order.

That said, I at least did volunteer for a couple of chaperonage and other positions in the coming weeks.

Storm's in a ton of honors classes and aiming for an International Baccalaureate Diploma. I'm hoping to keep her on track for that, although she's making worrisome noises about a different high-pressure educational track that's more oriented toward highly skilled vocational positions.

Comments

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

Does she have ideas on what she wants to do after she graduates? The IB diploma would probably be pretty useful getting into a 4-year university, if that's where she's headed.

If she doesn't know, the vocational track might actually be a really good idea. My daughter V did Running Start for a year, then transferred to a similar program that resulted in an AAS rather than an AA... which meant that she was able to finish high school with a technical associates degree that allowed her to immediately get a job paying a lot more than minimum wage, which she can use to support herself while she figures out what she wants to be when she grows up.

And, in fact, she's just started back to school with the intention of finishing her Bachelor's and going on to get a degree as a Physician's Assistant.

[omahas.livejournal.com]

She's already decided she wants to be a doctor...a surgeon, in fact. My understanding is that the IB program is the best one for her in that circumstance.

[urox.livejournal.com]

Well, she's in one of the best states to go to medical school with UW being a 1 in 8 acceptance rate.

[urox.livejournal.com]

I had the 100 day cough last year. That somehow triggered asthma in me due to a vicious cough-irritation cycle. If you can, get them to prescribe an inhaler.