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School Choices Part 2

Since this post a lot of things happened. Jimmy got properly diagnosed with Autism. We celebrated at a  specific Indonesian Cafe that does plain noodles the exact way he likes them.  Also, there was a pandemic. I kept a diary the whole time. I didn't post it here because everyone was going  through the same thing and I thought it would be boring. I have some kind of plan to cross reference it  against Dominic Cummings' select committee evidence and finally work out what the fuck was going on. Like everyone else, I home schooled the kids. For Kirsty it was a nightmare. For Jimmy it was..... his best life.  We didn't send him back.  So now I have one home educated kid and one kid in school. Its interesting.  The thing about the Gaelic school that I didn't grasp at the time.  Everyone else is tutoring.  The class is moving at the pace of a tutored child. If you knew from the start that you planned to heavily tutor your kid that school would be ...