School Is Here

It is that time again for school to start and will be a big year for Angie! It is her senior year at Odyssey and start of her first year at West MEC in the hairstyling program. We are really excited for her! She got her driver's license so will be driving herself to school this year. West MEC is located very near Odyssey and the program starts right after school.

Ingrid had a rough first year of high school and her anxiety sky rocketed, despite our attempt at helping her with counseling. We finally had her tested with a private psychiatrist in the spring and uncovered mental challenges we did not know that existed. Odyssey is just not set up to give her the support she needs so we made the decision to transfer her to a public school. I spent all spring interviewing the principals of all the public high schools in our district and picked the school I felt would be best for Ingrid. I was blessed to get a variance for Ingrid to go there and got her set up with a 504 plan to help with her school day.

We made the decision before starting Juan in high school at Odyssey to also transfer him to a public high school. We picked a different one for him, and I think it will help to have Ingrid and Juan at separate schools. Unfortunately, it will be a lot harder on me getting two kids to two different schools!

Ingrid's school is called Desert Edge High School. Juan's school is called Canyon View High School.