My Single Mom Life

I don't think I've posted what's been going on with Mark and his plans for the future, so I figured I'd give you all an update.

Mark is planning on becoming a police officer, that's what he wants to do with his life, and even though it's a very risky job, it's a very noble job and I stand behind him 100%.
There are a bunch of classes that Mark needs to take at the local technical college over the summer, but he needs to get started on that very soon, so I gave him permission to take the early exit option from school.

The early exit option requires that Mark take a test and pass in order to graduate early, by April instead of May when all of the other kids graduate.
The test is Wednesday and Thursday night from 2:45 to 7pm, and he and a friend who is also taking the early exit option, will be going and riding home together.

In order to take the test and graduate early, Mark has to have a state ID.
He doesn't have his drivers license yet, he wants to wait until summer for that, so I have to go with him on Wednesday morning to the building downtown, and get him a state ID so he can do what he needs to.
He doesn't have to go to high school Wednesday or Thursday because of the testing at night and because he's taking the early exit option.

If he passes the graduation test, he can take the classes at SCTI over the summer, just 2 classes, and then go to MCC in the fall for the law classes he needs, and start his 2 years there, then after graduating from MCC, he can apply to the police academy.
In order to get into the police academy, he needs at least 3 personal references.
He has his BIG George, who was a detective in Washington DC for 25 years, our landlord who is a Sarasota County Sheriff, and his teacher at the high school who has been helping Mark get all of this school stuff scheduled and getting him on the right track.
Mark had started to give up on his education for a few reasons, he lost interest in school, he missed a lot of days because of my 1st surgery I had in his freshmen year, and then again this past September, and he just became really unfocused.
The teacher really helped him get back on track, he started taking a special class at school which allowed him to do all of his classes at his own pace on a computer instead of in a regular classroom, and he started to really do well, he pulled ahead, got all caught up on everything he missed during those times he missed school, and he actually completed all of his high school credits about 3 months ago, he's done with school basically, he has every single credit needed for graduation, but in order to get out early, he has to take the early exit option test which will give him a GED instead of a general diploma, but even though it will be a GED, he actually has all of his required credits plus about 10 more credits for doing more work than he needed to do.
Going into the self-motivated classes was the best thing for him, working at his own pace, not having to deal with a regular classroom and all kinds of students, not having to deal with teachers with no time, and not having to sit through a lot of stupid stuff that teachers do, was the way for him, it worked for him, and now he gets to graduate early and begin taking his law classes at SCTI this May instead of in the fall.
Now, he will be done with the law classes, and can go straight to college in the fall for his 2 year degree in law, and then on to the police academy when that's done.

So, no school for him Wednesday and Thursday, his testing at night, and so in the morning on Wednesday, I need to get him downtown to get his ID, and then in the afternoon, I have to take Sebastian to the neuro for his migraines, so neither one of them are going to school on Wednesday because of the timing of when we have to leave here to get to everywhere we need to go for the both of them to get everything taken care of that they need to.

It will be a busy day for me, but worth it.
We'll finally start getting some answers for Sebastian's migraines, and Mark will be well on his way to his goal of becoming a police officer.