As an LDS family, we’ve chosen to enroll our daughter in a church-sponsored religion class taught at our local junior high. This class is called seminary, and it’s like attending church, but it goes deeper into discussing religious topics. She’s having a wonderful time, but we did get off to a rough start.
First of all, she’s scheduled to attend on an A day. They gave me a chart which shows me which days are A days and which days are B days. Pretty much it’s every other day, but if there’s a holiday, it gets messed up, so we check the chart frequently. But then you throw in teacher collaboration days, and assembly days, and minimal days, and I had no idea what was going on. One day, she sat and waited for fifteen minutes for me to pick her up, and I thought for sure I was there on time. I finally went in to the seminary building with her and asked them to explain the chart. It seemed I was getting her there early or late at least once a week. They explained their system, and as long as I cross-reference chart 1 with chart 2, we’re good to go.
But it was sure confusing to get to that point.
This is one of the things I love so much about home school. There are no funky charts, no strange assembly/minimal days, no days where you’re supposed to be five minutes early and ten minutes late for every class. You determine your own schedule, and you can adjust it according to your own needs. There’s no running for the car in your pajamas when you realize you’re late.
Of course, any time you choose to enroll your child in a school class, you will need to work that into your schedule. They have things organized the way that works best for them, and so it’s necessary to incorporate that into your daily routine. I’m just sure glad that’s not how I have to live my entire life. I think I’d go stark-raving mad.
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