Trial

Drew started school yesterday. We are going to do a one week trial to see if he is ready. School for Drew has been a big issue to our Jamaican friends. Jamaicans start school by age 3 and they do not do homeschooling. So, for the past year we have been consistently interrogated in regards to why Drew is not in school. Our consistent answer has been that we are homeschooling him and that usually works in not getting him sent away to the Department of Children Services. Before we left for the summer, we had talked to the principal and she said that we could try Drew in school. The goal of this experiment is not necessarily academic. We are hoping that this will help him improve socially and help him improve his signing skills. He has a new teacher that just graduated from Bible College in Georgia and is back for her first year of teaching. She seems to do a great job and we are excited to see how the trial turns out. He has done well his first two days and so we will see how he finishes the week. As I am sure most parents understand, the adjustment may be bigger for his parents than for him. We are nervous wrecks, but we trust that if the trial is successful it will be good for Drew. He had homework the first day as he had to glue together a paper "A." There are already several good stories, but why waste all of the good blogging material on one post?