In a previous blog I outlined a typical day. If Emily doesn't get up at 6:15 and get RIGHT to it, things don't get done. She goes to the junior academy from 12:30 to 3:45 four days a week, and we're coveting that time to do schoolwork. She goes to the school for musical enrichment and PE. The classes are fun, and beneficial, but they're not currently part of her curriculum. I only recently learned that she gets her English done in the band director's office during music lessons--meaning, she's often listening to two trumpet students while trying to concentrate! Good thing she doesn't have ADD!!
We experienced the school setting for two years, and in that time this same feeling of "it's too much" happened intermittently. When I was in college I remember feeling as if each of my professors thought theirs was the only class that mattered. I used to wonder if they had any concept of the staggering amount of work that was assigned over all the courses in a typical load. It's all a lesson in setting priorities and managing time, I suppose.
Second semester I foresee that one of the extra music classes (band or choir) will get jettisoned from the schedule.
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