Applied and identified

It was mixed day of mostly non-productivity, however by necessity. I had to spend two hours of the morning getting badges for my newest employees, and then two hours of my afternoon taking care of final details of Darby and Shelby's transfer application for public school. Both tasks completely necessary, but leaving me with not much to show for of my work day since I was out of the office for half of it.

In particular, the afternoon task required much driving around town. I had to stop by the girls current school for standardized test scores, meet up with their mother to get some papers, and of course swing by their prospective new school to turn everything in. We don't find out for a month if they get in.

Speaking of test scores, I was rather surprised by the results of the girls' Stanford scores, which were from last year (they test in the next couple weeks for this year). While Shelby tested mostly at the first grade level (her grade at the time of the test), there were a few surprises in the results. For Darby, there were many surprises. In particular the fact that her overall reading level was rated at 7th grade, though she was only in third at the time of the test. Actually, of the eight major categories tracked, she scored above her own grade level in all but one (math, not a surprise). The real kicker was that in one of the reading subcategories, "word study skills", she score at the 11th grade level! Her overall level was fifth grade.