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nervous about the upcoming school year?

Yes! DD10 will be in the highest grade at her current school, and I'm worried about the lack of academic peers.

Yes two words...

middle

school

dd just said this evening "I wish school would just start already so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore"

i am worried about DS10 socially. i'm worried about DD8 academically. *sigh*

Try one in high school, one in middle school, one in elementary; moving to a new "abode" (same city) with a different living arrangement...um, I am a little excited, a little nervous. I think I will be needing a lot of support this year.

This year was a good year socially and academically (except math). DS8 had a great teacher who loved trying to find new ways to challenge DS and his classmates.

I am already worried about next year because in previous years we got to meet with the new teacher as the school year was ending to plan for the following year. I know nothing about DS8's teacher for next year.

Worried? Not sure that's the right word. Oldest is going away to a military academy, DS8 is straddling middle school/high school this year, DS6 has SPD's that make school challenging some days, impossible the rest. Oh yeah, and myyoungest is starting Kindergarten.............

Beginning to freak out!

Yup. Trying not to be, because three years in, DS7's school have been great so far, and so the rational expectation is that they'll continue to be, but every year is different so every year I'm nervous... He'll be in the "upper school" next year, which gives him a longer school day (till 6pm every day) and more specialist teaching (which I am pretty sure he'll enjoy). He is still slow to get his ideas down on paper (dislikes the physical act of writing, and typing isn't much better) which limits him; I'm still content that he's best off with age-peers, especially as he gets on well socially with them, and as he is small and a bit inept physically. He'll need his own maths of course; we'd be happy to continue organising it, but also, the head has apparently found "a high powered maths lady who is keen to work with" DS so we're waiting to find out more about that. Could be fantastic... we hadn't felt it was time yet for him to really need a maths mentor other than us, but if she's good... and it's lovely that people at the school care enough to be this proactive. I'm a bit concerned about science; until now, it's been wrapped up with "project", but now it'll be separate lessons. On the one hand, DS is excited about using science labs and doing experiments etc., and on the other hand, it may be about to get much more obvious that his theoretical knowledge is way ahead there as well - and if that does become a problem it'll be harder to fix than the maths (because he has practical vs theoretical asynchrony within science, whereas within maths he's reasonably synchronous, just ahead). I'm also anxious about how music practice is going to fit in - he's going to have to take responsibility for practising mostly without supervision in breaks in the long school day, and he's due to take a piano exam next term, so if he fails to get that going it'll have fairly immediate consequences! Breathe, breathe...

Me too.

DD9 will also be straddling elementary/middle school and the school principal who we have worked with for the past 3 years has moved on to a new school. So if anything comes up, we'll be dealing with a new administrator who will probably think I am either crazy, negligent, or a helicopter parent.

Friday, I found out that the school day is going to be 30 minutes longer This means we will be commuting back home across town closer rush hour with infant in tow.

I did end up ordering school shoes and backpack over the weekend to feel like I was on top of things.