eastowners

Current Mood: Confused

Today I took Clare to see her new school, and meet her teacher.  We had a nice visit, and her teacher is super nice.  I think she’ll have lots of fun in school there, and will learn a lot more than she would have in the public school in our neighborhood.  I have nothing against the public schools, but here in GR things seem to be put at the bottom of the bucket when it comes to schools.  So, we opted to send her to a charter academy instead.  The student teacher ratio is lower, and she has opportunities here that she wouldn’t have had else where.  I worry that had we tried GR Public she would have been bored, as we’ve worked pretty intensly with her at home to prep her for school.  I’ve put 5 years of my life into making sure she knows her stuff!  Brad’s been working on her reading, and she is now reading small books.  Most kids that go into Kindergarten don’t know those things, and I just think that it’d be a lot of repeat for her if we stuck with GR Public.  While we were visiting her classroom today they read a story about starting Kindergarten.  I sat there, watching her with all these other kids…..and realized that my baby is going to Kindergarten!  All along I’ve been saying no….I won’t cry, I’ll be doing a jig.  After all I get my free time back 5 times a week, and she gets a great educational experience.  It just feels like yesterday she was born, and we were bringing her home, having to learn how to take care of a newborn.  Now, she informs me that “When she grows up” she’ll get to do some things that she can’t do now.  She also thinks that because she’s 5 she doesn’t have to do things any more like hold hands…..or hang out with Mom at the park.  Why is it that as chldren we are in such a hurry to grow-up, when as adults we wished we could be children again?