Today is the last day of school for Jazz! (Remember? Dude graduated).
At least, the last day of REGULAR school. Jazz starts summer school Monday.
At a different school. Further away. Which means more gas. And more money. *sigh*
None of us are looking forward to him going to summer school this year. But since he’s pretty adamant about keeping band (which lasts all year) and Jazz band (which takes up the spring semester) on his schedule, we really don’t have a choice. We simply don’t have enough time slots to accommodate all of the classes he HAS to take in order to graduate.
But hopefully, this will be the last summer he has to take classes. Since he didn’t get all of the classes he wanted for next year (and WOW, Jazz was not happy about that one little bit), he will HAVE to take one more English class, a half credit of math and one full credit of Practical Arts, which translates into an Accounting class, per Jazz’s choice. Other than that? He should be good to go. The one class I’m worried about is the Practical Arts class. He HAS to have one credit in order to graduate but apparently, they only offer Accounting a few times and the class is hard to get into. However, Juniors get first dibs on classes, so hopefully he won’t have any trouble getting into the class next year.
In the meantime, Jazz is scheduled to take Personal Finance from 8:00 to 11:00, then break 30 minutes for lunch, and then take P.E. from 11:30 to 2:30, Monday through Friday throughout the entire month of June. Yeah. Not fun. It won’t be fun for him, and it won’t be fun for me or Dude (because he will be helping out, whether he likes it or not), dropping him off and picking him up all day.
We also need to get busy on Jazz’s driver’s permit. He’ll be taking his test very soon, so we’ll also be busy this summer teaching him how to drive. On top of everything else, Jazz will be attending various practice nights for marching band, so in an nutshell? The kid is going to be crazy busy during June.
Oh well. At least June will go fast and then …. THEN … family vacation time!!!!
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