It has been a long year for Sarah. I think she's pretty done with going to school for the year. I remember that feeling. The orchestra teacher had a rough year but a couple of weeks ago the advanced orchestra came home with an award for 1st in the state in school orchestras (middle schools and high schools). She is the one reason we stayed in this middle school this year. She's tough, doesn't take back talk and she expects the kids to do what they are expected to do. She won't "give" a grade. You have to work for it. The intermediate kids were pretty unhappy at this concert and you could see it in their behavior and the way they were sitting. The teacher gave extra music to the advanced and took away a couple of songs from the intermediate kids because they weren't practicing enough and doing as well as she expected. It was rather sad but I understood that she was frustrated. Sarah has requested that we try to take her to orchestra daily next year for homeschooling. She has been moved up to advanced this year. It means she's going to have to practice all summer to get ready for the beginning of school but she says she's willing to do it. I've asked the school and they seem to be ok with it. I just need to verify some information and it's all good. I'm so happy they let homeschoolers use the extracurriculars. That makes a huge difference since I didn't want Sarah to drop a musical instrument and wasn't sure we were going to be able to pull of private lessons on top of everything else. Yay God!
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