I’ll take a look at Green Valley online, SK. Sounds like a great area (except for the heat)!
I’ll bet your kids were smart and their peers were just jealous of them. So after awhile, they decided they didn’t want to contribute to class anymore to expose how smart they were.
My kids were all social animals in HS and I wished they would have been a little more interested in their studies. But in the end, it seems the qualities of gregariousness and street smarts are worth something too, in the “real world.” I’m anxious to see how my last kid does in college. They have to live on campus for one year as several of the CSU campuses changed their rules for non-service-area freshman in recent years. The CSU also has a few other thorny, new bureaucratic requirements of incoming freshman and juniors transferring in from CC (all in attempt to boost their 4-year graduation rate and retention stats). Also, about eight of the 23 CSU campuses which are not as impacted are now trying to hold freshmens’ hands a little more so they won’t get lost, sign up for the wrong classes, lose their direction, stop coming to class, not ask for help when they need it, etc. Their fees (aside from classes) went up to almost $1000 year but I’m grateful for all the services offered, including tutoring and test prep.
