Saturday, March 12, 2005

The Harris no child left behind bill

Danny will graduate from elementary school this year I can't believe how quick he is growing up. Warren county schools (which by the way employs Kirsti) is rated somewhere near the bottom of all schools in Va. Kirsti can give exact per-centages of all the meaningfull catagories, and believe me that can be a very lenghty discussion. So far we have both been very satisfied with his education and have liked his schools and teachers,all of which we steered him into with Kirsti's clout as a school administrator. There is no clout that can keep him out of Warren county middle school, the only middle school in the county. With nothing but negative commentary from all directions and hellbent on seeing him prepared for college we began considering private school. Last weekend we attended the open house of a Front Royal Icon in schools Randolph Macon Accademy. Dan had already expressed some interest in RMA and we had both heard some positive things about it so we thought lets have a look. It is a boarding school with a day school program as well, grades 6 thru 12 with a strong emphasis on college prep, sports, and what appears to me to be a bunch of fun learning. Dan was impressed more than we were which means no pitch necessary so it would be an easy transition for him. The introduction to parents looks great considering the accademic record and student teacher ratio. To perspective students it looks even better with electives like flight school and rifle range then throw in the after school activities like Paintball and Indoor pool its as the kids say "pretty tight" We are going to apply and see what happens not everyone gets in and he understands that. Next week is an activity at the county middle school we are going to attend for a little introduction there, In my eyes it pales by comparrison, The annual faculty Donkey Basketball Game. I will not volunteer for cleanup.

1 comment:

Steve said...

RMA does look quite swank. You want to watch out about setting expectations, though. Next thing you know, he'll be wanting to go to some damned Ivy League school.

We struggled with the lousy school syndrome for a long time. We escaped the local middle school nightmare when our elementary school expanded to include middle school. That was bad enough. If you can survive middle school, you can survive life.