Senior Registration - Part 1

I can't believe it is here already!  It is registration time for Will's Senior year in high school.

My baby.

Ugh.  I know he'll hate me saying that.  After all, he's a lean 6'1"teenager, now.  He has big hands and big feet, and he has to practically fold himself in half just to hug me these days.

There is so much potential hanging around him that it is practically a vibrating force.  I can feel it.  He is thinking about and planning for the future.  More on that in another post sometime later, though...



Will has almost all his graduation requirements filled.  He still needs a senior English class, and the Government/Citizenship class that all seniors are required to take.  Other than that, he needs 5 elective credits.  So, just 6.5 credits stand between him and graduation.  And a schedule that has slots for 8 potential credits.

Here's the plan as it stands today...

He'll take Senior English and AP Calculus AB (first semester college calculus).  Both are full year classes.  He'll take Gov/Cit first semester, and weight training second semester.  And he'll take release time for seminary, which won't earn any credits, of course.  That will all be scheduled in his mornings.  The mornings net 3 credits for him.

In the afternoons, he'll leave the high school campus and travel over to the MATC (Mountainland Applied Technology College) campus at Thanksgiving Point for their Information Technology certification course all year.  In this course, he'll get a chance to certify in A+, Network+, Linux+, Security+, and a bunch of other stuff that means absolutely nothing to me and just looks like a bunch of letters strung together.

The Tech college and the high school have an agreement.  He can take the tech college class and receive high school credits!  Four of them, in fact.  And, the courses are tuition free to high school students!  This class normally has a $2,000 tuition fee, so it is really great that he can take it free while still in high school!  There is a lab fee of a couple hundred dollars, but I'll gladly pay that to give him a head start in a field he is interested in.

If we manage to build the schedule we have planned, it will give him 7 credits to finish high school.

High school registration was supposed to happen at 3:00 this afternoon, but the district is experiencing some network hardware malfunctions, so registration has been postponed to Wednesday.

So, Part 2 of this post will come later this week when we have successfully managed to get Will signed up for the classes he wants.

Stay tuned!