Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Senior HS Parent Reflections

Spirits were high at the Churchill Senior Breakfast yesterday as parents, students and Churchill staff mingled in the school auditorium.  The ordeal of figuring out how to transition to life after Churchill is now behind us. At least the first step of the journey. Most students will attend college in the fall and a few are taking a gap year.

My son will attend Hofstra University on Long Island. His route there meandered from wanting to study hospitality at a small college in Florida to business management at a medium sized university with many academic options and solid LD support. Other students will attend Adelphi University, American University, Boston College, Connecticut College, Ithaca College, Skidmore College, SUNY New Paltz, Syracuse University and other great schools. A gap year student will attend University of Madrid, Spain.

Churchill families are savvy. "We're still waiting for financial packages," some parents would respond when asked where their son or daughter would attend. As readers of this blog know, I think that how to pay for college should be a main decision factor - families should think hard about the consequences of racking up debt to pay for education.

Having completed the college search with my son, I am now ready to hand over this blog to another Churchill parent, yet to be 'appointed'. Let me or Ms. Hugger know if you are interested.

Veronica