Preschool

Little Miss Carly could hardly wait to begin preschool. She has been talking about it non stop since we began preparing for her older siblings to go back to school! WHERE she would attend preschool has been thrown around here and there and as of today, I am her new preschool teacher!

The school district used to have a program called Kick Start Kindergarten. It was geared for students who would be entering Kindergarten in the fall and it began in January and went until the end of the school year, but with my not so good luck, the governor of California decided to change it all up this year and the school district now offers a program called "Transitional Kindergarten". Transitional Kindergarten lasts the entire school year (beginning in fall instead of winter) and follows the SJUSD calendar which would be every day excluding holidays and teachers work days. I was relieved when I found out that they were still doing something, but then I got the news. The news that the only children that would be allowed into this program would be the ones whose birthdays fell between November 2nd and December 2nd. Since Carly's birthday isn't until January 2nd, that put us in the "sorry, you don't get the same advantage as the kids who will be in your kindergarten class will" category. Yes, you read that right! Carly will not be able to go to preschool because her birthday falls after the cut off date which is only a one month span...(STUPID) with the same kids who will be in her kindergarten class. Can someone please explain that genius idea to me? Why even spend the money on it if it only allows a small group of children in it? As of today, the class is not even full! It's so infuriating to me that they can't make something as simple as preschool for all those entering kindergarten the following year available. When I went and talked with the school district, they told me to put Carly is State Preschool, which would be awesome except for the fact that we make way too much money to even qualify for that program and soooo, here we are...homeschooling. The good news is, I have come to terms with the idiotic law that some dumb person should have never made in the first place (why change a good thing) and am excited to teach Carly what she needs to know for Kindergarten. Actually, the kid already knows everything she needs to know for kindergarten...so we will move on to first grade standards, but we need a little refresher first! Here's to Carly's homeschoolin' preschoolin' awesomeness!