Remember the excitement that you felt at the end of Grade 7. Knowing that in just a few months you were going to be entering high school. Sure there was anxiety there, but you had your friends that you grew up with throughout elementary school, and they would be your support team. As scary as it was ... it was still so exciting.
It is the final months of the school year, the high school that you plan on attending is now arranging for your class to participate in the walk through, as well as fill out the paperwork to select your electives.
My daughter will be attending Grade 8 this year. At the present moment she is completing Grade 7 at St. Mary's Catholic School. In previous years St. Mary's has been a feeder school for Duchess Park secondary. In the last month we were informed that there have been some changes, and it was not clear as to which students would be able to attend Duchess Park. Yet we were still told to fill out the online transfer, and our children have completed the paperwork applying for their electives, as well as completed the walk through. My daughter has a sister that is automatically transferred from College Heights elementary as she is in French immersion, and this is the only high school that will support the French classes. The first year of high school is already scary enough for our children, but what about when there are entering a school where they have no support.
Being as there is no Catholic high school there was some comfort in knowing that our children, for the most part, could attend the same high school.
I received a letter last week explaining that my daughter is now on a waiting list and we are having to wait to see if she will be able to attend. They have suggested that I put her in home school until a space becomes available for her. I think that I am almost insulted that it is the assumption that I can take time from my work schedule to stay home and teach my daughter.
Here we sit watching school after school being shut down, and there are children that don't even have a high school to attend.
Lindi Correia
Prince George
