Nanci Kuykendall

>I wanted to point out a couple more things. I don't
>know how close to 17 your neice is but in WA at 17
>she can become an emancipated minor (ooo a whole year
>early, I know) as long as no one contests it and it
>doesn't sound as if her parents would.

Emancipation is an option we have been looking into as
well.


>you might consider is getting her into running start
>at CBC.
>Katie

We moved Katie! I thought you knew. Otherwise we
wold have gotten together more. We live on the
Olympic Peninsula now. But Running Start is a State
Wide program, so we have been looking into that. As
you said though, it means registering with the public
highschool system first and then going to the college
through them, and I don't think we want to so that.

Update:
Her second California Highschool Exit Exam came back.
She missed it by two points this time, missed it by
one point the first time she took it, last year.
Given her phobia of tests I think it is pretty safe to
say that her stress is affecting her ability to
perform on the exams. I told her she aught to take
the two test results, all her scholarly awards and
certificates, and as many letters of recommendation
from teachers and administrators at her school as she
can get, and go to the school board to ask that they
pass her. She has been a peer tutor and has worked
for the last two years at her Highschool as a
teacher's aide (making real money) at the Independent
Study school she attends. She is very mature and
intelligent and capable and I think they should just
let her go already. She obviously has the knowledge
base and is just not performing well enough on the
test. That's obvious by her identical performance on
the test both years, regardless of another year of
school gone by.

Nanci K.

birdiebutt2001

Yeah, I knew, now that you mention it. Guess it slipped my
mind. :) With her history and educational susesses it sounds as if
something will definatly work out. It always seems to. My Nephew
(16 in feb) is having the exact opposite problem. His grades are so
bad the public schools are refusing to let him attend anymore (also
in California). I wish I could get him up here with me but his
parents will never let him go. And they are very against homeschool
but that's a whole different issue.

Good luck!
Katie

> We moved Katie! I thought you knew. Otherwise we
> wold have gotten together more. We live on the
> Olympic Peninsula now. But Running Start is a State
> Wide program, so we have been looking into that. As
> you said though, it means registering with the public
> highschool system first and then going to the college
> through them, and I don't think we want to so that.
>