I finally found a few minutes while Richard was here at the house this afternoon to run down to the junior high (on the corner, 2 houses down) to ask them about ELL classes for Janelle. I was so impressed with the three people I talked to and what I saw at the school. The head counselor was out of his office, so I wasn't able to talk directly to him, but the secretary was as nice as could be and will pass my info along. It looks like Janelle should be able to enter ELL classes (English for language learners) as soon as next week, and get a taste of it for the next month and a half before summer vacation. They are setting up things so that she can take an English assessment test next week and then hopefully get right into the classes. The school is huge, 930 students, and is full for this year as well as next, but since she would probably only take ELL classes and continue to homeschool, they think that they can get her in.
I arrived at the school at a hard time for them. As I was signing in as a visitor I noticed a few people enter the office just a few steps away. A minute later I heard a scream from a girl, and thought, "Someone just got in trouble." But the secretary, with tears in her eyes told me that they had just had to tell the girl that her father had been killed in a motorcycle accident. As I left the school about 15 minutes later, I saw that everyone in the office was having a hard time and had tears in their eyes. There were a lot of caring people there.
While at the school I asked who I needed to talk to to get speech therapy going for Taylor. They passed on my question to someone in the county office, and an hour later I got a call from a lady who is checking out for me where and when he will get speech. She was very helpful as well. Sounds like we should be able to get speech going pretty quickly. She asked if I would want ELL for Taylor, but I explained that we would continue to homeschool, and that he is caught up for his age, and that was no problem.
These two issues were two of the main reasons we felt like we needed to spend some time in the States, so I am thankful to be getting moving on these.
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Hey Mom, sounds great! I am is San Fransisco now, don't have internet, I walked a couple of miles today and after 3 starbucks places and a while to figure out how to conect to the internet I am finaly here! Well just wanted to say hi. and thanks I din't know how many days it was until I got there either. only 20 yeah!!
Starla,
Sounds like you (the kids) are on their way to a better grasp on the English language. This will be great for Janelle. Give the kiddos hugs from Aunt Robin.
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