Vincent news

Vincent’s two classes had timed out. He can’t get his old work back. Vincent and I toyed with the idea of signing him up for the high school General Equivalency Diploma pre-tests. Vincent had been signed up for dual enrollment English and math classes, which cost us $100. The English class, which is required to graduate, he had almost finished. (Both of these classes he had taken before, at Brown.) Jefferson County High School did not kick him out of school. In fact, he signed up for FIVE classes: the dual-enrollment English class (again), a whole year of dual-enrollment computer class (for which he may need to buy Office for his father’s laptop computer), and two easier lifeskills and career development classes. Since he needs to take the second semester of the math class, I’m not sure he really needs all of these classes, but I decided not to argue with the school official. She still has to find his second-semester World Civilization, which she couldn’t find a record for. We’ll see if he does better at taking five classes than he did at taking two. It’s still not clear whether these time out in five months or one year. This cost us $150. It remains to be seen whether Vincent can make any more progress over the next five months than he did during the past five months (not any progress).

I told Vincent Stephanie would probably want us to take him out to dinner for his birthday on Friday evening or Sunday after church, which he seemed OK with him (probably Friday). He mentioned also the possibility of seeing a movie Friday, which I had wanted to do also. We’ll have to see how it will all fit in, since I must get ready for a worship service Saturday morning. He was threatening to go off with his friends today (on to Brown School vicinity after our JCHS visit) and during Thunder (I imagine he’ll start with us). He said he had a headache which he partly attributed to not smoking. He said he blew off a young woman with whom he had exchanged text messages during the past month.

-- Perry