In about a month, rising college freshmen will be leaving the familiarity and comfort of their own home for the crazy and unknown world that is college. That’s right, parents. In a month your little babies will be leaving you and venturing to a place where you have little control. But don’t worry, parents; you definitely don’t look old enough to have a college student.

As soon as he saw the chess set in the foyer Thomas Potts was sold.

Messiah Montessori School’s new building inauguration on June 21 began in true Montessori fashion. After the Board of Directors cut the ribbon signifying the school’s opening, the students cut a second ribbon and got to take a piece of the ribbon home with them, representing the Montessori philosophy of students taking a hands-on approach to their education.

North Fulton parents were rightly shocked that almost half the 8th graders in the public school system failed the math portion of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). This came on top of the news that many students also failed the social studies portion of the test. The official word is that “the scores were implausibly low” in the social studies portion, which led to the decision that the results were thrown out.

When you have a child who is struggling in school, you do your best to ensure that he or she gets the help they need. Unfortunately not all kids get that assistance, and in some cases the assistance seems to ignore the problem. Eventually, as the student falls further and further behind, the time arrives for the parent to take action.

Mary Anne Charron has been named the new principal at Alpharetta High School. She will be replacing Buck Greene who has sat in the principal’s chair for the past three years at the 4-year old school. Greene is moving on to help open the new high school in Johns Creek that is scheduled to begin classes in the fall of 2009.

Organized students will be urged, beginning in their junior year, to pick appropriate schools and lock in their financing through grants, scholarships and loans early in their senior year. But the less organized group may be just now sorting out how to finance their further education. The good news is that regardless of where you are in the process, you can still attend college this fall. And you can still secure funding.

Johnny Goodstudent gets his college applications in early, receives a big pile of acceptance letters in the mail and deliberates for the majority of his senior year on which reputable school he should grace with his presence.

As an eighth grader in Alpharetta, Angad Singh has made quite a name for himself in the world of international relationships and films.

The Fulton County School System announced three community meetings in April and May to address the redistricting process for a new high school under construction in Johns Creek. The school’s attendance zone will be created by modifying the boundaries of the existing North Fulton high schools. It is scheduled to open in August 2009.