It’s funny how things are different everywhere, each state, each country. Here I’m wholeheartedly against half-day kindergarten, but I would be all for it if it was done right. I enrolled V in public school, across the street from us, as a back up plan to hs, went to the orientation and it terrified me and I didn’t look back. I thought half day would be awesome, but here it’s not – they cram that 6-7 hour day into 3 hours for those little kindergartners, they get a 10 minute recess – 10 minutes!!! I mean I guess it makes sense because they have less time to work with – but maybe they should be doing less “testing learning stuff” and more “play learning stuff”, they’re 5. The principal at the orientation said, “now just a warning, your kindergartner will be very stressed out the first 1-2 months of school because of all we have to cram into that short period of time”. WHAT?! I cried right there & said, no, they have 50+ years of being stressed out about stuff, do they really need to do that in kindergarten?! I really wanted to give it a go, I really wanted to give her that experience, I soooo tried. Hubs was like, well let her have play based learning & exploring after the 3 hour half day – well ideally that sounds awesome, but the reality of it is it will take the rest of the day to decompress my tightly wound daughter, there would be tantrums and screaming and acting out – I just know it – that’s what stress & intensity does to her. I can’t do it.

So… I’ve decided I’m moving there, instead of you moving here – it sounds like they got memo of what kindergarten is supposed to be like. (ps until then, can you have them fax over a copy to our school districts?! k, thanks! ;) ) Until furthermore, I heart you – mwah!

Congrats on your new adventure with Miss G.