Samantha goes to school tomorrow

[Nancy in VA]

After two years of homeschooling, Samantha goes to school tomorrow. Due to extreme overcrowding in our middle school, if she wasn't a student IN the school system at the end of this year, she has no chance to go to middle school. I don't KNOW if she's going to middle school or not, but this gives me a chance to decide over the summer. I know about 6-8 families between private schools and homeschooling that are doing this.

She seems quite excited - she wants new pencils and folders.

I'm surprisingly at peace with it. I think I'm going to enjoy a little bit of time with just the younger two at home.

Its been a pain though - in order to get her registered, I had to:

Take a medical form to the Dr. to be completed since her checkup was in Jan and I didn't have it filled out since I didn't think we were going.
Drive to the State Capital (2 hours away) to get a new copy of her birth certificate since we couldn't find her
Go BACK to Dr. to get a special slip that says she isn't at risk of TB because that had to be within 3 months and not the 5 months her checkup was
Talk to 2 different schools since she can't go to our local one because its full - she has to be bussed to a different one
Talk to the transportation office to request a bus change since the "overflow" bus would pick her up at 6:45 for a 7:50 school start, and the new one will now pick her up at 7:17


But I think we're finally ready to go to school tomorrow! Of course, she is going to have little to no instruction, since they finished their state testing yesterday and I know for certain she has a field day and an all day field trip in the next 12 days of school!

[Flutterby]

I bet she's nervous and excited all at the same time (as mom is:) ) she should have an exciting 12 days of school though:)

so, what happens if someone new moves into town over the summer, they aren't allowed to attend school?

I hope she really enjoys it! :)

[Jensmami]

Good luck to her, I am sure she will have fun. Does she know any kids there already?

Jenny will go back to public school (she starts middle school in the fall) after a year of home schooling, I too have mixed feelings about and so does she, but I think she is more excited then anything.

[Nancy in VA]

so, what happens if someone new moves into town over the summer, they aren't allowed to attend school?

I hope she really enjoys it! :)

If someone moves into town over the summer, they will go to a different middle school about 8 miles away. With none of their neighbors. I wasn't about to take her out of homeschooling and put her in a school where she knows no one.

Good luck to her, I am sure she will have fun. Does she know any kids there already?.

She actually does. The school she is going to got some kids from our elementary school when it was built, so kids she was in 2nd grade with. She also plays soccer and dances and goes to church here in the neighborhood, so I think regardless of what class she ends up in, she'll probably know someon!