High School

Although she got through the hoops to get put into the lottery (essays, application, interview), the computerized lottery process did not choose the Lone Star Girl for Collegiate High School, the school she really wanted to attend.  She was very sad.  It is probably the first thing she has wanted in this way that she has not been able to have.  It may have been the first thing she has wanted in this way. 

Then, she had to choose between the two wonderful options she had left.  She was already qualified for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program at Ray High School, it being a new extension of the GT program  she has been in since first grade and it is going to be a wonderful program.  She also was accepted into Moody's Health Sciences Academy, though, and it is also a wonderful program, especially since she wants to be a nurse-midwife.  All the while she had been hoping to go to Collegiate, she had said she would probably go with Ray if she did not get in, but when push came to shove, it was agonizing for her to choose.  


She has settled on the IB Program at Ray and I know she will do wonderfully there (how can you go wrong with a school whose team is the Texans and whose fight song is to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?) .  From my perspective, three, then two great options was a great thing, but I know that at her tender age, it has been maddening to have to wait and choose, as she will always have to be doing about so many things from here on out.  


I am proud of my girl and I know this last chapter of her girlhood will be just as wonderful as she has always been.


High school!