In case you need a translation:
My dog's name is Kenai.
My cat's name is Lulu.
My other cat's name is Kitten.
Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts
Friday, March 12, 2010
An essay by B
In case you need a translation:
My dog's name is Kenai.
My cat's name is Lulu.
My other cat's name is Kitten.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Ummm....
...at least he's grasping the concept? Just trying to put a positive spin on this one...
I got an email from B's kindergarten teacher today. She wanted to give us warning ahead of time so we wouldn't think she was a terrible teacher. I guess B's been copying down a lot of words lately, and she wanted to know where he was as far as actually spelling words. So she asked him to write down some words from out of his head. In B's defense, he can spell a whole lot of words, but I'm sure it's absolutely true that these were the only words that came to mind:
POOP
FRTE
A note about the second one: some people spell it FART. B was logically applying the "magic E" rule to R: magic E makes the vowel before it say its name.
I laughed until I cried, and did my best to get that out of my system before I had The Talk with B about how the at-home ban on potty words extends to school too.
I got an email from B's kindergarten teacher today. She wanted to give us warning ahead of time so we wouldn't think she was a terrible teacher. I guess B's been copying down a lot of words lately, and she wanted to know where he was as far as actually spelling words. So she asked him to write down some words from out of his head. In B's defense, he can spell a whole lot of words, but I'm sure it's absolutely true that these were the only words that came to mind:
POOP
FRTE
A note about the second one: some people spell it FART. B was logically applying the "magic E" rule to R: magic E makes the vowel before it say its name.
I laughed until I cried, and did my best to get that out of my system before I had The Talk with B about how the at-home ban on potty words extends to school too.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Continent house
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
B's first day of kindergarten
I dropped B off for his first full day of kindergarten this morning, and it was awful. He was fine right up until he had to go through the door of his classroom, and then he started crying and clinging to me. He had to be literally pulled off me and taken into the room. Of course, all this made me cry too, but I think B was too miserable to notice.
Z and I went down to the parent lounge to wait a few minutes, then went back to peek in to see if he was doing better. He wasn't. All the kids were sitting in a circle, playing a name game, and B was at a table in the back of the room with his head down on his arms, with the head of school talking to him. I waited around until she came out, and she told me that she'd promised him she'd go back later in the morning, and if he was still having a hard time, she'd take him for a walk outside.
He went yesterday for just about two and a half hours, and I guess he cried a little bit then too, but he called me afterward (I was at work) to tell me he "LOVED kindergarten!" I'm hoping today goes the same way.
Poor little dude. Change is hard.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Kindergarten, here we come!
I finally heard yesterday from our first-choice school -- B is in for kindergarten this fall! This is a public charter school, and a Montessori school. Right now it's preschool - 6th grade, but they're adding 8th & 9th grades over the next couple of years, so he'll be able to stay there until he goes to high school. And Z will now go in their sibling priority pool whenever we're ready to send her there too, whether that's for her last year of preschool or when she starts kindergarten. She'll stay where she is for now because she's happy there.
I felt a little bad when I called the other school to withdraw B because the principal was so nice, and it seemed like a good neighborhood school. They told me not to feel bad though, that I knew my kid best, and if I thought he'd do better in the Montessori environment, then they understood why I was withdrawing him. Nice people!
I felt a little bad when I called the other school to withdraw B because the principal was so nice, and it seemed like a good neighborhood school. They told me not to feel bad though, that I knew my kid best, and if I thought he'd do better in the Montessori environment, then they understood why I was withdrawing him. Nice people!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Brain dump (with pictures)
Not of my brain. The pictures, that is. That would be scary.
First off, the main thing on my mind this week (month): kindergarten. Schools #6, 7 and 8 from this post called this week to offer a spot to B this fall. We decided to tell school #6 "thanks but no thanks," mainly because we decided it's just too far off our normal home-preschool-work commute to be convenient or practical. I toured school #7 this afternoon, and was not terribly impressed. It's hard to explain why; there were no glaring problems like teachers spanking kids or padded cells or anything like that. I just wasn't wild about it. I'm touring school #8 in the morning and have high hopes. I've talked to the principal on the phone, and she seems very warm and friendly. We have to tell these two schools yes or no by Friday. My thought is to say yes to one of them, with the hope that our favorite (#2 in the aforementioned OCD post) will eventually come through with space for B. In the meantime, one of these two would certainly be better than our neighborhood school.
Now, on to the pictures. I know that's why you're really here anyway. Nobody outside my family cares about where B goes to kindergarten or how we go about deciding where he should go. I know that; I just torture you with the details because writing about it helps me sort out my thoughts. Sorry. Not really. Sorry I'm not sorry. Ha! Oh, I'm on a roll tonight, cracking myself up.
OK, on to the serious stuff: Z's hair. It is SO dry! And thin, and fine. Almost every morning, we get this:
Keep in mind, I took this picture at least an hour after she'd gotten up. It's not like I snatched her out of her crib & snapped a photo before her hair had a chance to calm down. It would have stayed this way all day if I hadn't spritzed it with water & combed it down. Or if her dad had taken her to preschool that day (he says hair care is women's work; I say it looks like her parents don't care when she goes to school like that). What to do? I've invested heavily in high-quality conditioners to no avail. At first we thought maybe it was due to malnutrition, but she's had the benefit of great nutrition & her hair's been cut enough times over the past almost-a-year (!) for me to know that argument doesn't hold water. I'm open to suggestions, other than shaving her head.
And now a seriously important topic: B's big-brother skills have shown massive improvement in the past two months. I think it was over the Christmas holidays, when the kids & I were "on vacation" for two weeks, that we really started to notice this. They play together a lot more than ever before, and B has begun to take great pride in his ability to both entertain and protect Z. He talks to her in the sweetest little voice, super high-pitched, like he imagines grown-ups are supposed to talk to babies. And he always talks in third person with her, as in "Z, watch B. Watch B fix the toy for Z." He also talks in his own sort of baby-talk to her: "Z, watch B. B fix toy." It's completely endearing and I'm so proud of him. Here they are on a day (at a moment) when they liked each other:
But don't get me wrong. There are still plenty of days when B feels more like this:
He's mercurial. He can go from the first picture to the second in a split-second. He did, in fact. But that second picture cracks me up. It's SUCH a B-face.
Speaking of my B's face...he's getting freckles! Just like his mommy. I hated mine with a passion when I was younger. I tried everything to get rid of them. I even laid out in the sun with lemon juice on my face in an effort to bleach them! My only thought on that now is this: how many of the wrinkles that I have now can I blame on the lemon juice? Behold B's freckles:
Last but not least, a totally random picture. I was painting my toenails a luscious hot pink one night, and when Z saw what I was doing, she demanded I paint hers too. Of course, then I had to offer to paint B's. He rejected the pink (understandably) and demanded blue. Luckily for him, I had two shades of blue for him to choose between. He chose the one that he thought was closest to the shade of blue in Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. We couldn't leave M out, so I painted his next. Here we are, all with painted toenails (the hairy toes are M's, in case you couldn't guess):
One last tidbit (no photo though): B is still talking about his new girlfriend Piper. There's now a picture of the two of them together on his bulletin board, per his request. And he told me yesterday that he's been taking all his preschool friends on imaginary trips to "Minnasoka" to visit Piper. They're all riding on his airplane, and he's driving. B's got a little crush...
First off, the main thing on my mind this week (month): kindergarten. Schools #6, 7 and 8 from this post called this week to offer a spot to B this fall. We decided to tell school #6 "thanks but no thanks," mainly because we decided it's just too far off our normal home-preschool-work commute to be convenient or practical. I toured school #7 this afternoon, and was not terribly impressed. It's hard to explain why; there were no glaring problems like teachers spanking kids or padded cells or anything like that. I just wasn't wild about it. I'm touring school #8 in the morning and have high hopes. I've talked to the principal on the phone, and she seems very warm and friendly. We have to tell these two schools yes or no by Friday. My thought is to say yes to one of them, with the hope that our favorite (#2 in the aforementioned OCD post) will eventually come through with space for B. In the meantime, one of these two would certainly be better than our neighborhood school.
Now, on to the pictures. I know that's why you're really here anyway. Nobody outside my family cares about where B goes to kindergarten or how we go about deciding where he should go. I know that; I just torture you with the details because writing about it helps me sort out my thoughts. Sorry. Not really. Sorry I'm not sorry. Ha! Oh, I'm on a roll tonight, cracking myself up.
OK, on to the serious stuff: Z's hair. It is SO dry! And thin, and fine. Almost every morning, we get this:
Keep in mind, I took this picture at least an hour after she'd gotten up. It's not like I snatched her out of her crib & snapped a photo before her hair had a chance to calm down. It would have stayed this way all day if I hadn't spritzed it with water & combed it down. Or if her dad had taken her to preschool that day (he says hair care is women's work; I say it looks like her parents don't care when she goes to school like that). What to do? I've invested heavily in high-quality conditioners to no avail. At first we thought maybe it was due to malnutrition, but she's had the benefit of great nutrition & her hair's been cut enough times over the past almost-a-year (!) for me to know that argument doesn't hold water. I'm open to suggestions, other than shaving her head.
And now a seriously important topic: B's big-brother skills have shown massive improvement in the past two months. I think it was over the Christmas holidays, when the kids & I were "on vacation" for two weeks, that we really started to notice this. They play together a lot more than ever before, and B has begun to take great pride in his ability to both entertain and protect Z. He talks to her in the sweetest little voice, super high-pitched, like he imagines grown-ups are supposed to talk to babies. And he always talks in third person with her, as in "Z, watch B. Watch B fix the toy for Z." He also talks in his own sort of baby-talk to her: "Z, watch B. B fix toy." It's completely endearing and I'm so proud of him. Here they are on a day (at a moment) when they liked each other:
But don't get me wrong. There are still plenty of days when B feels more like this:
He's mercurial. He can go from the first picture to the second in a split-second. He did, in fact. But that second picture cracks me up. It's SUCH a B-face.
Speaking of my B's face...he's getting freckles! Just like his mommy. I hated mine with a passion when I was younger. I tried everything to get rid of them. I even laid out in the sun with lemon juice on my face in an effort to bleach them! My only thought on that now is this: how many of the wrinkles that I have now can I blame on the lemon juice? Behold B's freckles:
Last but not least, a totally random picture. I was painting my toenails a luscious hot pink one night, and when Z saw what I was doing, she demanded I paint hers too. Of course, then I had to offer to paint B's. He rejected the pink (understandably) and demanded blue. Luckily for him, I had two shades of blue for him to choose between. He chose the one that he thought was closest to the shade of blue in Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. We couldn't leave M out, so I painted his next. Here we are, all with painted toenails (the hairy toes are M's, in case you couldn't guess):
One last tidbit (no photo though): B is still talking about his new girlfriend Piper. There's now a picture of the two of them together on his bulletin board, per his request. And he told me yesterday that he's been taking all his preschool friends on imaginary trips to "Minnasoka" to visit Piper. They're all riding on his airplane, and he's driving. B's got a little crush...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Kindergarten dilemma resolved
Thanks to those who offered words of support or advice to my previous Kindergarten dilemma post. Thanks just for reading it, actually, even if you didn't leave a comment or email me -- it was verrrrry long.
On Tuesday, I visited school #2 from that post, the Montessori charter school. I loved it! I loved the kindergarten teacher I met, and I loved what I saw going on in her classroom. I loved the principal. I loved the school's philosophy. I love Montessori. Can you feel the love?!
Now we just have to get him in. Sibling enrollment ends this Friday, and that's when they'll know how many spots they have for new students. If they have more applicants than they have spots, they'll do a lottery. We should know by the end of next week if he's gotten in during the first round. If he doesn't get in during the first round, the second round begins in February and lasts through August 31. Yep, it's possible that he could start kindergarten somewhere else in August, then get a spot at our top pick school. If that happens, I'd yank him out of that other school and put him in this one. I love this school!
I'll be very anxious when I press "play" on the answering machine each night next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
On Tuesday, I visited school #2 from that post, the Montessori charter school. I loved it! I loved the kindergarten teacher I met, and I loved what I saw going on in her classroom. I loved the principal. I loved the school's philosophy. I love Montessori. Can you feel the love?!
Now we just have to get him in. Sibling enrollment ends this Friday, and that's when they'll know how many spots they have for new students. If they have more applicants than they have spots, they'll do a lottery. We should know by the end of next week if he's gotten in during the first round. If he doesn't get in during the first round, the second round begins in February and lasts through August 31. Yep, it's possible that he could start kindergarten somewhere else in August, then get a spot at our top pick school. If that happens, I'd yank him out of that other school and put him in this one. I love this school!
I'll be very anxious when I press "play" on the answering machine each night next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The kindergarten dilemma
B starts kindergarten this fall. I am so excited for him! He, on the other hand, would apparently prefer to spend the rest of his school-age years in preschool, then go straight into the workforce. He's refusing to go to college these days. Luckily, we have about 13 years to convince him that college is a good idea.
Where we live, we have school choice. That means we can send him to any school in the district (actually, any school in the state, although in reality it would be impossible to get him into a school outside our district because of the way they prioritize enrollment). This is fortunate, because our neighborhood elementary school bites big-time. Through lots of research, we have identified seven other schools that we're trying to get him into. We've turned in applications at all of them, and are awaiting the results of a lottery conducted by each school. The lucky lottery winners get notified by mid-February.
This is an incredibly complex process. The difficulties I have encountered include:
Problem #1: How does one identify a "good" school? To help with this, the district makes an accountability report available for each school. It includes the following:
a. overall academic performance rating
b. academic growth of students compared to last year
c. test scores for the past three years
d. teacher/student ratios & class size
e. % of students on free and reduced lunch
f. enrollment stability
g. average teacher years of experience & salary
h. principal's years of experience at that school and total experience
i. disciplinary incidents
j. a paragraph or two expressing the school's philosophy and goals
This information brings us to Problem #2: what to do with this info? How much can you really learn about a school on paper? First and foremost, how to evaluate test scores? Do high test scores indicate a good school, or a school that has adapted very well to teaching to the test? If we send B to a school with extraordinary test scores, will he spend all his time with his nose in a text book and memorizing multiplication tables? Will it make him hate school? Could a school with lower test scores be doing a better job of teaching art and music, or following kids' curiosity and keeping them excited about learning? Or is it just a crummy school? Second, is it realistic to expect a school to expect a school to have "High" academic growth year after year? Won't a truly outstanding school eventually get to a point where it can't get any higher? Then there's that free/reduced lunch thing. It clearly indicates something about the economic status of the families at that school, and possibly also something about ethnic diversity. Being the pinko-commie liberals that we are, we would like our kids to go to schools with economic and ethnic diversity. Unfortunately, the schools with more economic diversity are also generally the schools with lower test scores and overall academic performance. I'm not liberal enough to actually sacrifice my kids' education in order to support public education and our neighborhood school, so I'm a little bit ashamed to say that I'm regarding a high percentage on the free lunch scale as a strike against a school.
Problem #3: Since this information on paper clearly isn't enough, where do we get more, better information? Some schools help us out with this by hosting parent information nights. We've been to one at one of our two top-choice schools already, and I'm touring the other top-choice school next week. Our preschool is also helping out by hosting a kindergarten information night this Thursday. There will be parents in attendance who have kids at four of the seven schools we've applied to, including our two top-choice schools. I'm also having a drink on Friday night with a friend whose daughter has been in a Montessori preschool for the past year. She's now an aide in the preschool herself, so I'm hoping she can tell me a lot about Montessori and what sort of kid thrives there.
I have a feeling I'm still going to be left with questions after all this though. Maybe YOU can help! Here are our choices:
1. Our neighborhood elementary school. This is our last resort. I'll be enrolling him here next week just to make sure he has SOMEWHERE to go next fall, but he'll only attend this school if he doesn't get in through the lottery at any of the other seven schools.
2. A Montessori charter school. This is the one I'm leaning toward most. The director of our preschool told me that if she couldn't keep the job she has, she'd want to teach at this school. That's high praise. The one strike against it: their test scores aren't great. Still, they're rated "High" for overall academic performance (the only higher rating is "Excellent") and "Typical" for academic growth, so they can't be all that bad. And how much do test scores really matter? The big question for me though is this: Will B flourish in the Montessori environment? It is very student-directed, and I honestly don't know if he's the kind of kid who will excel in that environment, or will spend all day fingerpainting and not learn to read until he's 12. I plan to ask his lead preschool teacher about this before we make our choice. Montessori is very close to the curriculum our preschool uses (Reggio Emilia), and B seems to be doing very well there, and appears to like it. That seems like a good indicator that he'd like and do well in a Montessori environment too, right?
3. A very traditional, very academically rigorous option school. "Option school" means that it does not serve a neighborhood (everyone gets in by lottery), but still has to get school board approval for its curriculum (unlike #2, a charter school). This is clearly an outstanding school. Their test scores are all 98% or higher, their overall academic performance is "Excellent" and their academic growth is "High." A school doesn't get any better than this on paper. It is very difficult to get into this school -- 200+ applications for 30 or so kindergarten openings. One big advantage: the kids who go to this school have priority enrollment at an outstanding middle/high school that is also all lottery-based for enrollment (if we even live in this town by then). The dilemma: will B like and flourish in such a rigid teaching environment, or would he do better in a more relaxed environment like the Montessori school? The kids at this school definitely learn and do well, but does it take a certain kind of kid?
4. A neighborhood school that is very close to where we live. It's great on paper, very popular among parents, and hosts an in-school gifted & talented center. They only had 2 choice enrollment slots for kindergarten this year though, so our chances of getting in aren't good.
5. A neighborhood school that is very close to the kids' preschool (simplifies logistics for dropping kids off/picking up at kindergarten and preschool for the next two years), and not far from where we live. Like #4, it's great on paper, popular among parents, and hosts an in-school gifted and talented center. The preschool director told me that she "wouldn't want her kid" in one of the kindergarten teacher's classrooms, but we can cross that bridge when and if we get in. They are likely to have a few more slots than #4 this fall.
6. A neighborhood school in a nearby mountain town that is not TOO far out of the way for M's commute, but wouldn't be terribly convenient. Their test scores are good and they are well-liked. No in-house GT program. Currently no full-day kindergarten, although they do have an kindergarten enrichment program and may have full-day next year.
7. A neighborhood school near us that has good, but not outstanding test scores. They seem to have been declining in the last couple of years, but I don't know why.
8. A neighborhood school near us that has good, but not outstanding test scores. They seem to have been improving somewhat in the last couple of years.
All things considered, right now #2 and #3 are in the lead, with #2 taking a slight edge. That could change depending on what I learn in the next two weeks. #4 and #5 are tied for second place. #7 and #8 are tied for third choice, with #8 slightly leading. #6 would be fourth choice, and #1 is our school of last resort.
What advice can you give me, my wise friends? How would you decide? Do you have a favorite pick among our eight? Heeeeeelllllllllp me! I'm drowning in information!
Where we live, we have school choice. That means we can send him to any school in the district (actually, any school in the state, although in reality it would be impossible to get him into a school outside our district because of the way they prioritize enrollment). This is fortunate, because our neighborhood elementary school bites big-time. Through lots of research, we have identified seven other schools that we're trying to get him into. We've turned in applications at all of them, and are awaiting the results of a lottery conducted by each school. The lucky lottery winners get notified by mid-February.
This is an incredibly complex process. The difficulties I have encountered include:
Problem #1: How does one identify a "good" school? To help with this, the district makes an accountability report available for each school. It includes the following:
a. overall academic performance rating
b. academic growth of students compared to last year
c. test scores for the past three years
d. teacher/student ratios & class size
e. % of students on free and reduced lunch
f. enrollment stability
g. average teacher years of experience & salary
h. principal's years of experience at that school and total experience
i. disciplinary incidents
j. a paragraph or two expressing the school's philosophy and goals
This information brings us to Problem #2: what to do with this info? How much can you really learn about a school on paper? First and foremost, how to evaluate test scores? Do high test scores indicate a good school, or a school that has adapted very well to teaching to the test? If we send B to a school with extraordinary test scores, will he spend all his time with his nose in a text book and memorizing multiplication tables? Will it make him hate school? Could a school with lower test scores be doing a better job of teaching art and music, or following kids' curiosity and keeping them excited about learning? Or is it just a crummy school? Second, is it realistic to expect a school to expect a school to have "High" academic growth year after year? Won't a truly outstanding school eventually get to a point where it can't get any higher? Then there's that free/reduced lunch thing. It clearly indicates something about the economic status of the families at that school, and possibly also something about ethnic diversity. Being the pinko-commie liberals that we are, we would like our kids to go to schools with economic and ethnic diversity. Unfortunately, the schools with more economic diversity are also generally the schools with lower test scores and overall academic performance. I'm not liberal enough to actually sacrifice my kids' education in order to support public education and our neighborhood school, so I'm a little bit ashamed to say that I'm regarding a high percentage on the free lunch scale as a strike against a school.
Problem #3: Since this information on paper clearly isn't enough, where do we get more, better information? Some schools help us out with this by hosting parent information nights. We've been to one at one of our two top-choice schools already, and I'm touring the other top-choice school next week. Our preschool is also helping out by hosting a kindergarten information night this Thursday. There will be parents in attendance who have kids at four of the seven schools we've applied to, including our two top-choice schools. I'm also having a drink on Friday night with a friend whose daughter has been in a Montessori preschool for the past year. She's now an aide in the preschool herself, so I'm hoping she can tell me a lot about Montessori and what sort of kid thrives there.
I have a feeling I'm still going to be left with questions after all this though. Maybe YOU can help! Here are our choices:
1. Our neighborhood elementary school. This is our last resort. I'll be enrolling him here next week just to make sure he has SOMEWHERE to go next fall, but he'll only attend this school if he doesn't get in through the lottery at any of the other seven schools.
2. A Montessori charter school. This is the one I'm leaning toward most. The director of our preschool told me that if she couldn't keep the job she has, she'd want to teach at this school. That's high praise. The one strike against it: their test scores aren't great. Still, they're rated "High" for overall academic performance (the only higher rating is "Excellent") and "Typical" for academic growth, so they can't be all that bad. And how much do test scores really matter? The big question for me though is this: Will B flourish in the Montessori environment? It is very student-directed, and I honestly don't know if he's the kind of kid who will excel in that environment, or will spend all day fingerpainting and not learn to read until he's 12. I plan to ask his lead preschool teacher about this before we make our choice. Montessori is very close to the curriculum our preschool uses (Reggio Emilia), and B seems to be doing very well there, and appears to like it. That seems like a good indicator that he'd like and do well in a Montessori environment too, right?
3. A very traditional, very academically rigorous option school. "Option school" means that it does not serve a neighborhood (everyone gets in by lottery), but still has to get school board approval for its curriculum (unlike #2, a charter school). This is clearly an outstanding school. Their test scores are all 98% or higher, their overall academic performance is "Excellent" and their academic growth is "High." A school doesn't get any better than this on paper. It is very difficult to get into this school -- 200+ applications for 30 or so kindergarten openings. One big advantage: the kids who go to this school have priority enrollment at an outstanding middle/high school that is also all lottery-based for enrollment (if we even live in this town by then). The dilemma: will B like and flourish in such a rigid teaching environment, or would he do better in a more relaxed environment like the Montessori school? The kids at this school definitely learn and do well, but does it take a certain kind of kid?
4. A neighborhood school that is very close to where we live. It's great on paper, very popular among parents, and hosts an in-school gifted & talented center. They only had 2 choice enrollment slots for kindergarten this year though, so our chances of getting in aren't good.
5. A neighborhood school that is very close to the kids' preschool (simplifies logistics for dropping kids off/picking up at kindergarten and preschool for the next two years), and not far from where we live. Like #4, it's great on paper, popular among parents, and hosts an in-school gifted and talented center. The preschool director told me that she "wouldn't want her kid" in one of the kindergarten teacher's classrooms, but we can cross that bridge when and if we get in. They are likely to have a few more slots than #4 this fall.
6. A neighborhood school in a nearby mountain town that is not TOO far out of the way for M's commute, but wouldn't be terribly convenient. Their test scores are good and they are well-liked. No in-house GT program. Currently no full-day kindergarten, although they do have an kindergarten enrichment program and may have full-day next year.
7. A neighborhood school near us that has good, but not outstanding test scores. They seem to have been declining in the last couple of years, but I don't know why.
8. A neighborhood school near us that has good, but not outstanding test scores. They seem to have been improving somewhat in the last couple of years.
All things considered, right now #2 and #3 are in the lead, with #2 taking a slight edge. That could change depending on what I learn in the next two weeks. #4 and #5 are tied for second place. #7 and #8 are tied for third choice, with #8 slightly leading. #6 would be fourth choice, and #1 is our school of last resort.
What advice can you give me, my wise friends? How would you decide? Do you have a favorite pick among our eight? Heeeeeelllllllllp me! I'm drowning in information!
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