The past few weeks have been a struggle with getting Honeybun\u00a0set up for Kindergarten.\u00a0 After she received her 5 year immunizations, I walked over to the Elementary school to officially register her.\u00a0 Well, turns out all Elementary schools in our area are closed on Fridays during the summer though this is not noted ANYWHERE.<\/p>\n
So we tried again Monday and after completing the paperwork the secretary asked me to sign her up for a pre-screening assessment.\u00a0 Unfortunately we are taking Doodle to visit my family and will miss the ONE day they are doing the screening.\u00a0 They also did screening in June but we were told she couldn\u2019t do the screening \u00a0until after she was registered and we couldn\u2019t register her until after she had her immunizations which she couldn\u2019t do until after her birthday (whew, that\u2019s a lot of explaining!).<\/p>\n
So basically we got screwed out of getting her screened and have been fighting with the school ever since to trying to get them to screen her another time as the screening determines which class she will be in and we strongly feel she needs to be in the high achieving class since she\u2019s such a fast learner (she can remember tiny details from insignificant events over a year ago).\u00a0 For almost two week we have been told that she will be placed in a class and screened when school starts and if she needs to be moved she will be moved to the advanced class.<\/p>\n
Two problems here: 1) She\u2019s 5 and starting at a brand new school, changing classes after getting settled does not sound like something she would do well with (example, the director at her dance studio wanted to bump her up a level mid-year and Honeybun\u00a0refused to leave her friends); 2) I assume they fill the high achieving class with high achievers and I am not confident there will be a spot in which to move her.<\/p>\n
So after hubby talked to the Assistant Principal twice, I took to e-mailing the principal.\u00a0 I explained our dilemma and concerns and reminded her we had met with her a few months ago to discuss our concerns.\u00a0 Amazingly I got a phone call the next day.\u00a0 The principal was seemed very understanding to our concerns and explained the screening they do also has a parent questionnaire they use to place children.\u00a0 Our concerns were somewhat relieved when she offered to let me do complete the questionnaire prior to school starting and assured me they would take it into consideration when placing Honeybun.\u00a0 She also informed me they will be under enrolled so each class will be small and there will be room to move children around and while I prefer not to have to move her, I feel better knowing it will be possible if necessary.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago I was ready to just keep Honeybun\u00a0home and not do kindergarten, but\u00a0 I feel relieved to know the school is at least listening to our concerns (whether or not they are taking us seriously it\u2019s hard to tell) and I am hopeful that we will have a good kindergarten year.\u00a0 We still have to fight the uniform battle (see\u00a0“A Uniformed Education”<\/a>) so will remain on the \u201cParents Black List\u201d but my children\u2019s education is not something I take lightly.\u00a0 I want them to achieve to their maximum abilities but more importantly, I want them to enjoy learning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The past few weeks have been a struggle with getting Honeybun\u00a0set up for Kindergarten.\u00a0 After she received her 5 year immunizations, I walked over to the Elementary school to officially register her.\u00a0 Well, turns out all Elementary schools in our area are closed on Fridays during the summer though this is not noted ANYWHERE. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10042,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}