No more Middle School children...

No more Middle School children now. Officially both of my youngest children are in High School. A new era awaits us. One is in public school and the other is home schooled. They are both awesome people. 

It's funny how that you can have different children, children who learn much different, children who are both very smart but have different ways of learning. 

When you have a child who, it seems, that everything is easy, it just LOOKS that way. She works very hard for her grades. 3.41GPA = 89% = B+. I'm very proud of my daughter. She is now a Sophomore. She is wanting to get all the core, required classes done early in her High School career. Smart move, that way she can focus on her Medical training. 

Then you have a child who has a hard time doing the writing assignments. All through public school his hand writing was hard to read. He can tell you verbatim what has been covered in class but to write it down was difficult. He had a IEP that was not utilized fully for him. Dysgraphia is the difficulty. 

Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder characterized by writing disabilities. Specifically, the disorder causes a person's writing to be distorted or incorrect. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Dysgraphia Information Page: NINDS)

I'm very glad I decided to homeschool my son. He is much more relaxed about learning. Homeschooling has worked for him on his self esteem also. 

So now, I have 2 high school kids. Before you know it, in the next 4 years, I will not have any children in school...well...high school anyway. Daughter is going to become a Registered Nurse.