Ugh.... I just found out that even if ds10 qualifies for the NUMATS awards ceremony, he won't be able to go, as it falls the same day as dd21's college graduation (it's not announced, but NUMATS told me it was 6/9, because I was trying to plan some events in June). Two weeks ago, I hardly gave it a thought and didn't think he'd qualify. So why do I care now? Nothing has really changed and the EXPLORE still serves the purpose for which he took it. In fact, his math teacher (I told her that he had a 25 in math) tutored him one-on-one yesterday and gave him separate homework. The other kids were definitely not doing slope intercept and graphing. So, all good, right? And he's in 4th grade, so even if he does make the ceremony, it's not as if it compares to what his sister has done to graduate college (and she's had some extremely difficult challenges, including the death of her father sophomore year).
I think I just feel guilty, especially when I read about a lot of the parent here. It seems like so many of you are moving to a different city, quitting a job to homeschool, getting a second one to pay private school tuition, taking on loans to finance your gifted child's enrichment.....All four of our kids have special needs of one sort or another and I feel like it's all I can do to juggle them without dropping too much.
I hope someone who has been will tell me how boring and useless the ceremony was. My initial plan is not to mention to ds that there is a ceremony, since right now he's clueless. Midwest dad mentioned a state ceremony, but I couldn't find anything about it online for IL, and I saw that some states have a higher cutoff than NUMATS so he might not qualify for our state ceremony, if there is one.
Sigh...
