W stayed home again today. He kept saying he would rather go to "the big school". So I called the big school and was told to come by around 11am and speak to Ms. X. We went in and she said there were 3 openings in the afternoon session. Then she asked J where she went to school (this is getting ridiculous). I said she was homeschooled (not feeling cheeky today) and OH MY GOD the amount of questions this woman asked was insane. She wanted to know everything from standardized testing, to curriculum, to "but she neeeeeeeds to know certain math skills". She was too much of a schoolteacher to have the ability to think anything positive of homeschooling. And she even had the balls to say "oh, so she just doesn't want to be around other kids". AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH! As politely as I could, I answered her questions and said her social life is actually better now thankyouverymuch.

Where's the damn bean dip when you need it?

So W was happy with the classroom, the teacher, and the sufficient amount of toys he saw. Ms. X. and I shook hands and she said she'll call me within a week so he could be enrolled. She *is* nice - letting J and W play with the toys and even giving W a high-five. In a way, I think she was genuinely curious about what we do and how we do it. Every question she threw at me got a great response, I think. I may have opened her eyes to something new. See? I can be an optimist when I want to!

When we got home, I notice W had a fever and he promptly fell asleep for a couple of hours. I'm sure he got it from his cousin at the beach last Sunday. J and I took advantage of the quiet-time and read some "Anne of Green Gables" together, and she did a few pages in a map/atlas workbook. I happened to be looking at "curriculums" and happened upon Oak Meadow. I was just curious to see what the appeal was. I showed J the 4th grade sample pages. Already I could see she was way beyond the math. She went down the line saying the answers to all the problems aloud. The other subjects' activities were things she'd also already learned, but some of the activities looked like fun. I wouldn't spend almost $500 on it, though. I definitely prefer unschooling to any overly structured forced lesson learning curriculum. She then checked her blog and played the Neopets game online. After that, she played some songs on the piano keyboard (she made up her own version of the bridal march, lol). Soon we're going to start our own fun projects and activities. I have several books to look through for ideas. Later, we picked up K and went to see one of the high schools for her that I have in mind. It was raining and we couldn't see much, but it's in a good part of town and is small with only about 400 kids. I'm still researching, though.