Posted in Ponderings

It has been one busy month. Between painting the inside of the house (outside is tomorrow) and with drama from Chantelle's grandmother, we have been busy.

Chantelle had been living with her gram and was planning on giving her custody of herself until last week. It seems that her gram has been blowing off enrolling Chantelle in the local high school (school starts next week for crying out loud) and she has also been denying Chantelle her much needed asthma medication. Gram claimes that it is because she can't afford the 50.00 in co-pays a month to pay for it (um hello I gave her 300.00 a month and she has Chantelle on her food stamps. Plus I bought Chantelle 300.00+ worth of school clothes and supplies). Gram also calls me once a month (always when Chantelle has PMS mind you) saying she can't handle her and that she is talking back to her. Chantelle is 14 after all and I know my mind doesn't work right during that time of the month either. This last time Chantelle had enough of all the crap her gram was saying to me about her and such.

So, now she is happily at my sisters and my sister has already gotten the ball rolling on enrolling her in school and heading to court for guardianship (she has to have it in order to enroll Chantelle in school in NH).

Now I have to figure out how to get transcripts for the 3 years I was homeschooling Chantelle. NH homeschool law is slightly different from ours here in MA. In NH, you have to have either a standarized test or a teacher evaluate a portfolio as an assesment. Here in MA it seems that each school district has a different means of evaluation. Some want nothing more than a report others want to see everything and I mean everything. I never got a letter from our super (who we report to) after our evaluation meetings and this year we have a new super (hope he is nice). So I'll have to make an appointment with him and show him everything and ask him to write a letter so I can bring it to the Manchester school department along with her standardized test score (she scored a 69 where 40 is passing!).

So, because I am having a little trouble getting Chantelle into school (I think it is mostly because it is a different school system in a different state), my hubby is a bit leary about me homeschooling Matt. He is on board and knows I can do it, it is just the part when we go to enrool him (the plan is to send him to middle and high school when we move to NH. Where he is only enterign the 2nd grade atm, we are way off right now). The middle and high school in the town we are looking to move to are excellent. I guess the school system gets a ton of money from the power plant in town.

Well, I am going to go for now. We went to the local farmers market and got a ton of blueberries (I ate almost half a pint on the way home LOL), early Mac apples, and cider donuts (Yummy!). I think I will go curl up and eat a donut now. LOL