Hubby and I navigated the high school open house last night. He learned the freshman class is the biggest with over 540 students. The total enrollment is the smallest they've recently had at 1980 students.
I learned I wouldn't be able to survive those hallways between classes. I also learned that some teachers, have really nice, spacious classrooms and others have broom closets masquerading as classrooms.
We think our daughters are in great hands. The majority of both sets of teachers are very experienced. The Honors Alg II gal has been teaching for 26 years, dept. head for 24. She has an Einstein action figure doll in her classroom! I think that between both kids, only one teacher is a brand new, fresh out of college professional....and she seemed to be extremely prepared.
Both kids will take the ACT this fall, the first time for one and the second time for the other. We need a baseline number to start with so they can take advantage of all the tutoring classes available to get the best score they can possibly get. Thirty is the magic number for admissions and scholarship money.
It was a good night. I know I wouldn't want to be back in high school, but it seems like the kids have good teachers this year and that can make all the difference.
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I agree..I would not want to be in high school now - no way! We had 30 in a class, which was the max. No such thing as SAT or ACT. How did we ever survive or know who was the top student? (Grandson at U of Ark has 500 in chemistry class)
But remember - those were the dark ages! :-)
Somehow ALL our peers made it to college, military or whatever, and became fine upstanding citizens -in spite of our 'limitations'.
sigh. and i also remember those days...
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