Well, I emailed three schools

[conuly]

And I'll call the ASL school tomorrow. That's the school with the most chance of having a seat... but they also have the least good academics. (This is not terribly surprising. My guess, without asking, is they have the same problem I'm told a lot of schools for the Deaf do - they end up with kids in the middle school and higher whose parents have finally given up on English-only, and now the school has to play catch-up.) If she went there, we'd be doing a lot of school afterschool and weekends. From my perspective, it hardly seems worth it, but I'm not Eva.

Anyway, the important thing is they take hearing students from throughout the city, even those without Deaf siblings or parents, though their priority of course is Deaf students and their siblings.

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Comments

[8hyenas]

That dialect article is lovely. I have an older neighbor who routinely says things that I've never heard. The current favorite... "Might on a rabbit's hind leg"
Sort of like a "mite" as in small, and then small enough to be on a rabbit. So she might do what she's talking about (usually laundry) but the might is pretty small.

[conuly]

That's charming!

[alasse_irena]

Wow, is starting first period at 7:30am a normal thing in US high schools? That's an hour earlier than anyone I know in Australia started, and even then there was a 20 minute homeroom period before we actually started class at 8:50...

[conuly]

Very normal.

One of the major selling points of Ana's school is that they don't start until after nine.

[alasse_irena]

Wow, there you go. After nine sounds pretty nice. That's still my standard for a non-horrible class start time, and I'm 25 now.