Monday, March 31, 2008

Do Francis children just not like kindergarten??

Mia has recently expressed that she does not like school.  She has been requesting that I home school her next year or at least that she go to a different school.  When we ask her what the problem is she says that whenever she needs help no one has time to help her.  It isn't a social thing because she seems to be getting along great with all the kids she's loved all year.  I think part of it is that her teacher sucks and maybe part of it is just that public school sucks.  We are looking into all our options at this point.  There is a chance we could get a scholarship to this awesome montessori, but we would have to move to send her there.  There is also another school further away that we would have to move for, but it's not first on our list.  Another option is just to try switching her to another teacher's class to see if things improve.  Shelby says that a bad experience in kindergarten caused him to be jaded against school from the start and to have a 5 year old who doesn't want to go to school is horrible.  She's not miserable or suffering or anything, but she definitely is not thriving like we thought she would and I think it has a lot to do with the environment.  I scheduled a meeting with her teacher for tomorrow afternoon right after school to see if she has any recommendations for me to help Mia enjoy the school part of school more.  If nothing comes of that I may ask if she can be moved to another class to see if that makes a difference.  Otherwise, I guess we'll start looking more into private schools and possibly even home schooling I guess.  

1 comment:

Child of the 50s said...

Most home-schooled children test out several grades above their peers. I know of @ least 4 Sheriff children who did that :)