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Day 15---School

I am so glad that my kids get to go to school.  They have had some pretty amazing teachers and support people in their education.  Both kids struggle in their own ways at school but then they both have these amazing strengths that if they embrace the strengths they will be able to go so many places and do so much. Each child has found their place at school.  The place where they fit.  I love them coming home and telling me about this adventure or that one.  I think the kids being in school has made them more aware of other people's differences and the kids have been able to see that not everybody is like our family.  Jake has a little boy in his class this year who is in foster care.  I can't tell Jake but I know the child from when I worked at CPS.  It has been an eye opening experience for Jake to learn not every child lives with their parents. 

Victoria went on a field trip today and had so much fun and learned so much.  Jake's GT class is watching a shark egg and by Christmas it will be hatched.  There is so much that they are able to learn that I know I would never be able to teach them if I home schooled them.

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