Thanks guys for just letting me vent...didn't realize how long my post was...I am just so angry - DS7 brought up what we were going to do for next year as far as school goes and we were discussing the options... we told him what our choices could be...
1. the private school that is about an hour drive away that is supposed to be awesome -multi-age classes, individualized lessons, project based learning and a "do-able" tuition...the only down side...they use Everyday Math-not so happy about this since my little guy's love is Math and have read the posts on here about EM comments....and the 2 hours commute each day
2.the newly zoned school that I had the meeting with the "lovely" guidance counselor....which DH and I have ruled out completey after the meeting we had...
3. continue homeschooling.
He said he wanted to visit both schools and then talk about it afterwards. I think he misses being able to be in a "class" (he did a Montessori school for 3 years for preschool)...and our area doesn't offer a lot of co-op classes, we end up traveling to Orlando/Tampa which is tough to do all the time.
There really aren't a lot of choices for private schools in our area- there is one that is supposed to be excellent but when we went to visit last year they told us that they were a little wary of being able to meet the needs of a child who gets speech/OT/and Gifted services..which I appreciate their honesty and their tuition is WAY out of our league...the other is a very strict Catholic school which we feel wouldn't be the best scenario for DS.
I am just SO frustrated to the point that I was considering writing a letter to the new super. for our county and letting him know just how I feel! If we weren't upside down in our house like so many other Floridians, we would sell and move to where ever we could find an appropriate place for him....blah!
