Tucks school experiences have bee a struggle to say the least. The public schools down here are okay at best, but for Tuck the first 4 years of his educational goals have been a battle. He is bored in class, so he chats with his classmates, he gets in trouble, I go to the school for a chat with the counselor, teacher etc. Over and over and over. The fight to put him in more challenging classes is a battle I finally surrendered. Only after a hour chat with the principal who told me the problem was not that he needed more challenging classes, but he was ADD and just needed medication (Tuck may be a smart alec sometimes but is not ADD).
This ended his public education. I took him out of school and home schooled him for the last 2 months of the school year. That was a great experience but difficult when you are single and work full time +. Tuck was lonely, so this year we started the private school. The last 2 weeks have been a flurry of testing, shopping, registering, and burning through a check book. The school is very academically challenging and has a top ranked football program. Both of these are super important to us!
I picked Tucker up on Friday from his first 2 days of school. He told me all about his day, how they play mental math games, and read everything (including the Bible) in class, and have PE every day (not just the once a week at public school) and language and music and Spanish and art and history. He is busy all day long and is not the first in class to get his work done anymore. The work is more challenging for him. He told me his behavior is lots better because everyone is so well behaved and quiet in class that if he talked, he would be the only one. So he behaves. Brilliant!
I asked him how he liked his new school.
He loves it..... And he is not bored....
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