AJ's senior breakfast went pretty well. I was supposed to be outside on the lawn, but....it was in one of the gyms instead, because, once again, it was raining! The Juniors put on the Senior breakfast, and they, as teams, decorated tables. The table we sat at was beautiful - a large vase of garden roses, dainty salt and pepper shakers, etc. One table was decorated by a team that put down all their Pokemon' cards on the table and covering it with clear plastic. Another was decorated like a little girls birthday party - balloon with "princess" on them, toy tiaras on the table, etc. Of course, some of the boys sat at the table, and were running around breakfast wearing tiaras. Too cute!

After breakfast, we moved to the Marr Auditorium (a beautifully restored auditorium - it was built in 1927!) for the Awards. There are 63 kids in AJ's class, and 21 of them have an average of 3.5 GPA - and that is unweighted! (If you take AP - or Advanced Placement - classes, you actually earn a higher grade. A 'C' in an AP class is worth an 'A' in a regular class.) U-Prep doesn't weight the grades, and a lot of these kids were taking AP classes, because colleges do weight them. Wow! I knew that a lot of AJ's friends were smart, but I didn't know most of his class was! One of the kids in his class scored in the top 1% in the nation for the SAT Test! I asked AJ why none of that rubbed off on him! (If he had a weighted average GPA, he said is would be a 3.2 - not too bad!)

AJ's class is the first class to start at U-Prep as 6th graders and continue through to graduate. Over half the senior class started there as 6th graders - it was really cool to see all these kids grow up over the last 7 years. Some I didn't recognize even - especially the girls! Maybe because I've seen the boys off and on through soccer games, etc.?