Alex is freakishly smart. She plays up her cuteness more than her smarts but the smarts is like totally there. Her teacher last year hated her and made life miserable. We were sort of talking about skipping Al into 7th grade this year instead of going into 6th but her teacher was like so anti-Alex that we couldn't make it happen. Like you need the teacher to say yeah this kid should move ahead and she wouldn't. We wanted her to because the 9/11 fund will pay for college until they run out of money, so since Alex is one of the younger kids she needs to beat out as many as she can so they still have money by the time she goes to college.
Except today Al brought me a note from her assistant principal saying he wants to set up a meeting. Alex showed it to her teacher asking if she was in trouble and she said no, it's to talk about bumping her up to 7th grade.
Now I'm all pissed because if this was going to happen it should have been from the beginning of September. Not now, after she's already spent a month in 6th grade. Now there's no way for her to start 7th grade without walking in behind.
Alex said she doesn't care one way or the other. Except until Danielle told her the longer Alex is in school the longer she'll have to live with Aunt Elaine. Of course then Alex said she wants to skip which is retarded because the plan since I even started high school was always that when I finish we'll all move out together. We are like our own little army - we don't leave any (wo)men behind.
I talked to my shrink about it and he said we should probably have an adult there who cares about Alex's best interests and doesn't have their own agenda. Craig sucks, he always makes problems. Isn't my agenda for Al in her best interests? Danielle said we should just ask him to come to the meeting but I don't know. I don't know what to do. Really last year's teacher should have just set this up for the start of this year. Now I can't deal with it.
3 comments:
Wow, that's a lot on your plate. The few kids I've known to skip, girls have handled it better than boys, and with her having 2 very involved older siblings I can only think that is a plus for her as well.
Once again, you're doing a great job...blessing to you and your sisters.
You should be very proud of yourself, and her! I hope whatever she decides she's happy with. :)
you're right though, it would have been so much easier all around if she could have started the year as a 7th grader. It's cool that she has you to go to the meeting, but I'm sad for you not to have an adult you'd enjoy having with you. Not so much cause you can't handle it, but cause you shouldn't have to?
In any case, as someone else said, you're doing a great job.
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