Thanks for all the info. As with most things, it sounds like "it depends on the school". I'll just have to wait and see who wants to pay her to go there...lol. That said, I guess we'll focus on driver's ed first
(which she is eligible to start in October) My intent all along has been to raise independent children and the fact that she is going on a 20 day trip to Europe with People to People without me this summer, at age 14, speaks to just how independent she is. I wouldn't have had the confidence to do that at her age! I tend to see myself as the parent who would drop her off at the front door and make myself available to her when she wants to call/come home, but encourage her to embrace her new surroundings (and go through recruitment...lol)