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March 08, 2005
Preschool
Both Henry and Theo go to preschool. In fact Henry is in his 3rd year because he just missed the kindergarten cutoff. I obviously won't be sending him to kindergarten in the fall but I sure wish I could continue sending him to preschool, or least something similar for older kids. For 12 hours a week Henry gets together with friends to play, do cool projects, sing songs and more. Theo goes to school for 6 of those 12 hours. And though they don't need to go to preschool to do these things it does me give me a break.
I know that they do a lot of the same stuff in kindergarten. But what I don't like about kindergarten is that the children do spend a lot of time sitting in desks. Plus it's every day and in some school districts it's all day. This doesn't allow time for a child do much else.
Once we move to Texas I may continue to send Theo to preschool for another year. I will also probably send Iris for a year or two. But kindergarten is not the right choice for our family.
Posted by Julee at March 8, 2005 09:48 AM