Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Multi-School Campuses are Brilliant

This year, having four kids in 3 different schools, I have discovered the pure brilliance of school campuses.  The high school, middle school, and elementary school are all located on the same property/campus.  I cannot even tell you the number of times it has come in useful, but to name a few:

(1) Alex has to stay late for drama til 5:15, I have parent conferences at the elementary starting at 5.  Alex can just walk over and meet me at conferences.

(2) Jarem and Tessa have pinwheels for peace at 2, Jesikah needs to be picked up at 2:20.  It worked perfect.

(3) Arts in the School open house at the elementary 5-7, Alex has a choir concert at the high school at 6:30.  Again, worked perfect.

(4) Last week, Eric was supposed to pick up Alex at the high school, then take Tessa to soccer practice while I was at the elementary selling t-shirts for PTO.  Alex got out of practice late and Eric couldn't wait since he was helping coach Tessa's team.  I was able to walk over to the high school and get Alex in my break.

(4) And tonight, soccer practice at the elementary at 5:15, Alex has to stay late for play practice.  He will walk over to the elementary after play practice.

These are just a few examples.  In addition, we are very fortunate to have this campus only 5 minutes from home.  Time saved, gas money saved, stress relieved (from figuring out how to be at 2 places at the same time), and convenience are just a few of the many perks.  School campuses: it's a beautiful thing!

7 comments:

Linda said...

Too true! Sounds like heaven. :-)

Anonymous said...

that does sound pretty nice! i can see how you are so relieved with the way it all can work out easily :)

Katie said...

Oh how I WISH they had that here! Sounds wonderful and glad it's worked out so well for you. :)

Susan said...

That is definitely convenient! I know you spend lots of time driving around so that is nice that at least school is sort of like one-stop shopping :)

the Sayler's said...

makes me jealous: this is our last year of 3 different schools located miles apart...

The Scarths said...

That does sound great. What a novel idea! I am glad some of our tax dollars went to a grand idea and it worked!

snapie said...

It's Awesome:)