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Mon, 08 May 2006

I am a very, very proud Dad today. My 11-year-old, Ryan, has been accepted into a program called Breakthrough. It's a mentoring program for high potential students that starts after sixth grade. Forty kids a year get chosen from AISD, out of the 80k or so. The students attend advanced classes at UT, participate in extracurricular activities year round, and mentor younger students as they progress, all in parallel to their standard curriculum through middle and high school. The result is that they are exceptionally well prepped for university life, and well in line for scholarships and such when they graduate high school.

He'll do six weeks at UT this summer. He's not very happy about the two hours of homework a night, but I'll bet he's going to find it a very cool and intellectually comforting place to be once he ramps into it.

Oh, and he's doing three cornet solos at the band concert later this month. Heh.

I am just really pleased that he'll have the challenges that he needs throughout the rest of his school years. What a fine day this is.

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