Soggy Sunday

It has been raining all day and then some!! We went to get CK some more paper for her to carry on painting which is always nice because it means she has got a whole pad of creativeness finished and is starting on the next one!!

We are still having mucho, biggo issues trying to find a way to get her into the local college at the same time as her peers to do her A levels/BTEC.
The rules have changed, so when we should have been able to get her in to do gcse's at yr 11 equivalent we are no longer able to and the farce that is ever present at the moment (which is "trying to get the college to bloody talk to us") is really grinding us down. Home educating has given us such lovely children, they are truly wonderful and everyone who meets them just falls under their spell but once you are out of the so called loop there ain't no way back into the system. The knowledge the kids have just doesn't count because they haven't got gcse's in it....

The local college just keeps saying "we can't do anything til she 16, bring her back then". This means she'll waste a yr sitting the gcse's she needs to get onto the art course that will lead to the degree that will lead to her chosen career as an art therapist. Previously she would've been able to do them over a year when she was 15 and then carry on as normal meaning uni at 18.

Also European funding has dried up so the gcse's will cost us big time, this is bad enough if you are over 16 but to do them at 15 is even more 'spensive. Grrrr, arghhhh.

I suppose in the scheme of things a year isn't the end of the world but at the mo it feels like it!

It is taking the emphasis of learning for both of them as our energy is directed at that brick wall that is known as the local education authority....

In fact it is quite hard to find anything positive to think about but hey ho, it'll all come out in the wash. Everything happens for a reason and if I lose sight of that then everything I've ever done or been through means nothing.

Sooo this is me, knowing that CK will get to where she's going, when and only when- she is ready.

Stealth --- different kettle o' fish!!!