High school... *shudder*

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I went to the 8th grade parents’ info night at our assigned high school, which is one of the best in the state, but the building is so big, and the very idea of my little tiny baby going off to high school is still a lot to get used to. Mostly we learned about the trimester system that they switched to this year. The kids only have five classes a day, and they finish a year of math, science, whatever, in two trimesters instead. It’s not too bad. We even got to see the reading lists for the various English classes. D. will most likely be in three advanced classes (Algebra II, Biology, and Honors 9 English), and probably Jazz Ensemble (which is also advanced, and which starts at 7:30 a.m., which is going to be soooo hard, but maybe it counts as a sixth class?), and I think he’ll also have Global Studies and maybe Teen Health or maybe he starts Japanese, I don’t know. We heard a lot about all the college credits the kids get, not only for AP classes but also for oodles of classes that have been “articulated” to match the content of the local community college.