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You know, when I last wrote about all this, I might have been a little premature with the whole "we're not getting a divorce" comment. We were all set to appeal Jared's placement at a school halfway across town, when my sister-in-law, who has been watching our kids for us after school, told us that she was going to be getting a full-time job during the day and wouldn't be able to watch the kids after the end of the school year.For me, that made the whole issue disappear. We're going to have to hire someone to watch the kids after school now, so we might as well make one of the conditions be that they can drive and pick up both kids. To me, that negates the big advantage of our local school -- proximity -- leaving the scales tipped in favor of the other school -- where at least three of his friends from preschool were going. It's not so much the kids that represent the benefit but their parents -- three sets of very active, very vocal, very pro-education parents, including one who is an elementary school teacher.
So it seemed like all the problems had disappeared. Rachel's mom would watch the kids on Tuesday and Thursday when Sara was home all day and we would get someone else to pick both kids up from school and watch them on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. Piece of cake, right? Wrong.
Rachel, it seems, still has an issue. She really wants the kids to go to the neighborhood school just down the street. She's been expecting that for a long time and doesn't like the idea of shipping Jared (and, later, Sara) across town when there is a perfectly good school a stone's throw away. She is also hesitant about having someone who isn't family drive our kids around. I certainly understand an initial hesitation, but I think that concern will dissipate as we get to know the person and they become more a part of our family.
So, we've filed our appeal, and sent in our request to be on the waiting list at our nearby school and we, once again, wait to see what hand fate -- and the San Francisco Unified School District -- deals us. We'll find out on May 4. Either way, I think it's going to be okay, but it kinda sucks not yet being able to tell Jared definitively where he's going to be going to school next year.
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4-12-2007 @ 2:20PM
Mammacheryl said...Good luck with your appeal. Since you didn't ask for words of advice on the subject, I thought I'd throw my two cents in anyway. :) Having a steady, regular person in your life who cares for your children doesn't have to be a scary thing. I think if you look at the hiring process in a logical, protective, but also intuitive way, you can find someone wonderful who will fit right in with your values, standards and desires.
The only reason I feel so strongly about this issue is I know that when I was a nanny, I would have laid down my life for that little girl. I treated her as precious cargo when we drove anywhere, too. Her parents were smart, though. They did a thorough background check on me before I was hired, and they met with me twice to get a feel for how I presented myself and what my personality was like.
If you were to hire someone, by all means, check references and do a legal background check. When they called someone on my reference list, they would get another contact from that person, so they would end up calling a few people who knew me well, but weren't expecting the call.
That all being said, good luck again with your appeal. I hope everything works out well for your family.
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4-12-2007 @ 9:42PM
Karen said...Going to the school across town means that his friends are going to be scattered all over town. It means to attend events, programs, conferences etc. that you have to drive half way across town. The after school activities that are often recruited in school and held in schools will also be held across town.
How much time in going to be spent in the car just for the commute?
I really wish that we'd get back to neighborhood schools.
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