Almost prepared

Will has been really frustrated with school this year. And he somehow manages to make sure WE get frustrated with him about doing his school work. Overall, the school isn't quite the same fit for him that it was the first two years at Innovation Academy. Each year the school struggles to get standardized testing scores up, they get further away from what we loved about it. We had a place for all four kids at IA for fall, but we were planning to [most likely] home school Will and Ben next school year. Will has been upset enough THIS year, that we gave him a chance to be homeschooled now, but only after he finished the long-and-dreadful math placement test that would let me know which level of Singapore math to order for him.

Today, we got THE call from the school. Sadly, none of the stories from the teacher, principal, Will, or the other boy match up so that we know what happened. What we DO know is that the boys were goofing off too much and the other boy got hurt. The principal had seen Will one too many times for "little" things and considered this situation to be, in her words, "assault". This is the shortened story that doesn't include all the tears and fights (at home) and constant frustration... but we saw it coming.

Rather than Will being suspended and "suspension due to assault" being on his permanent Texas school record, we told the school we would withdraw him tomorrow. When I emailed the mom of the other boy to apologize, she indicated that her son (who is a friend of Will's who has actually been to our home several times) said they were goofing off and that he wasn't really hurt. I'm glad of that part. Today, when he got home, he finished the math test. It turns out that the book we need is the one I found unused but at a used-book sale last fall. I planned on letting it be a practice book when he got to it. It just so happens that that is tomorrow.

The biggest problem with our new homeschool-now plan? **I** am tired of school and ready for it to be summertime. Now to figure out how to inspire the new teacher. Will seems happy with the results, but I just wish he had gone about it the "right" way.