Reflecting on Lauren’s Excessive College Journey

I am unable to imagine it, y’all! Lauren has made it to the end line! I’ve my first highschool graduate!

I have been an emotional wreck all final week excited about how rapidly Lauren has grown up, and now it is time for her to enterprise out into this big world.

Beginning highschool through the pandemic after which transitioning from public to non-public faculty within the eleventh grade was difficult. Nonetheless, Lauren labored arduous and stayed targeted on ending, a testomony to her power and character.

I am so comfortable that she went to personal faculty as a result of it motivated her to be and do something she set her thoughts to.

Public faculties have been telling children, particularly black youngsters, rubbish that as a result of colour of their pores and skin, they’ve an obstacle, additionally pushing worry into them.

My daughters have two profitable black dad and mom, and right here we’re uplifting them and motivating them to be the very best that they are often, however but public faculty is treating them like charity circumstances as a result of their pores and skin colour.

Due to this, public faculties started to be unsafe as they’d solely give black college students a slap on the wrist as a substitute of disciplining them.

So many fights, fires, threats, medicine, and faculty lockdowns. It was ridiculous!

Then, my daughters began non-public faculty and noticed individuals who seemed similar to them who had profitable households and lives. It was eye-opening for them to see that.

At my daughters’ non-public faculty, they assist put together college students for the following stage of their lives.

Additionally, they aren’t only a quantity; everybody is aware of and helps you.

Lauren obtained to do an internship at an animal hospital, even having the ability to watch surgical procedures, which she thought was cool to see.

It is nice that their faculty has a program requiring all college students to finish an internship to graduate, making ready them for the working world.

Her most memorable second in school was when she went to England and France for a few weeks with a few of her senior classmates.

When she left on her senior journey this previous January, I knew this was making ready me to let go. I cried as a result of I knew the time was coming, however Lauren is an grownup now; it is time to unfold her wings and fly with out me holding her palms.

However I will at all times be there cheering her on, and if she wants recommendation, I will at all times be right here to information her.

Summer season break is right here; Lauren will relax, relaxation, and work over the summer time earlier than she begins her subsequent chapter to turn out to be an esthetician.

As for me, I will be making ready for one more graduate, Michelle! She’ll be graduating highschool subsequent yr.

Wow, can time decelerate, please! I am not prepared for all of this!