#287: Losing It Over Old Skype and New Schools

Dan Klass

I had a battle with recording Skype this week. My recording software told me it would record Skype, and then suddenly Skype disappeared. I think the recording software was playing a trick on me, or Skype upgraded itself into obsolescence. Either way, it shouldn’t take a trans-continental communique to work out how to record a call. Wow.

We’re looking for high schools for Hudson. Ugg. I really wish we could just have him stand at the end of the driveway and get picked up by the school bus and they’d take him to the local high school where he’d get a decent education. But, that’s not going to happen. Especially with the most recent cuts to education spending in California. So, private school it is. Is it just in California, or everywhere that high school looks a LOT more engaging and dynamic than it was in my day. “Singer/Songwriter” classes? Robotics Team? “Arguementation?” I’m not even sure if we had a glee club, and I was in drama club. Maybe we did have all that stuff back then and I was just too big an idiot to know about it. Luckily, my son is not…

I was going to talk more, but I lost my voice. During the podcast…

13 thoughts on “#287: Losing It Over Old Skype and New Schools”

  1. Wow Dan, hope you’re voice is better now, that sounded very distressing.

    This whole schools thing is awful. We have to try and find a school for our kids when they get to 11. The school that serves our catchment area is out of the question, and so we are going to have to really fight or move, or pay for private education. That school that you were mentioning, the one that had no info, well they deserve to be humiliated in public…ok, check!

    Personally I’d move somewhere cheaper, less crazy and less airport adjacent to get them into a good free school. Bright kids will do well wherever. Given what you have intimated about your wife’s work situation, even considering paying for private education sounds insane, unless of course you can swing a scholarship or two, or some other financial assistance.

    Does Hudson and everyone else not use Facetime then, or are some of them on….shudder…Windows based hardware? For video chat it’s great and free.

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  2. Dan – all the public schools are not broken. Also, as Wayne said bright kids will do well. My son is graduating THURSDAY (sigh – where did the time go.) We had to move – a mere 7 miles – to make sure he went to the high school we knew he needed to attend. (Thank goodness we did so before the bottom fell out of the housing market!)
    His high school is the size of a small college. However, he received a wonderful education and had caring and invested teachers. My son is autistic and will be walking with a regular education diploma because a few wonderful teachers saw what he had to offer and helped him realize his overall potential. They changed the course of his life. He is going to technical college in the fall and that would not have happened if he had been accepted at the private school I just “knew” he needed to attend. Turns out that school sucks so they can eat it.

    Also, every child is different – even ones from the same family. My son is motivated, never gives up and bounces back. My daughter – not so much. She is in a small, private, multi-age school. That is where she feels whole. The school my son has gone to has a lot to offer but it is not what she needs. She is in 8th grade and has already earned a few high school credits.

    I can see both sides of the coin. It truly boils down to what is best for your child, what is available – both monetarily and locally.

    My dad, when we moved here, found the best school system and moved us into it. He spent 13 years traveling the roads to his job because he decided our education was worth more than his discomfort in a long commute every day. It took years off his life – thanks dad. My kids go to school in that same district today. Sometimes good things just stay good -or at least better than everything else offered.

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  3. Update:
    I was never a super student and neither was my husband. However, we are caring and invested parents like you and your wife. The best thing I ever heard was tonight – his name followed by With Honors. Not bad for a kid that I was told didn’t have a chance.

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