Recently I was talking to a friend about the magnet schools back home in Texas. I was really excited for Shawn because one of them had a culinary arts program. He would have loved that. And after graduating, he could have gone to Texas Culinary Academy – I was just looking over their website, http://www.tca.edu and it sounds like it might have been just perfect for Shawn. And he would have only been three hours away from us, in Austin, TX. And the magnet high school was actually in our school district! Here in our small town in Alabama, the closest magnet school is six hours away! Six hours?! Yikes! I have a neighbor friend who just sent her son there this year for the first time – he is a sophomore! Send my boy SIX hours away from me in the tenth grade?! That would be so hard – and both of my boys are expressing an interest in going. Oh no! Tell me again – why did I move to Alabama?
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