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Okay everyone heres a question I'd like to know what you all think.
My daughter as most of you know is in kindergaten this year. I put her into the public school system. Not the best of choices I have discovered.
Heres what is going on. A couple of 5th graders are picking on her. I am pretty sure it is due to the fact that she is blond hair blue eyed, and thin. These other girls have seemed to pick my daughter out and decided to start giving her a hard time. I found out about this and told my daughter to tell a teacher if it happens again. Well she did, and the teacher did nothing except tell her we need to all be friends. Again these girls are in 5th grade and mine is 5 years old.
We ended up going to a private school this afternoon to see about putting her in there. I am 99% sure that we will do this on Monday. The school she is at has a bullying problem and even the school counselor told me that today when I talked to her.
My question is am I over reacting about this?
One other problem is my daughters teacher is 25 years old, going through a bad divorce and works a night job too. I feel she has too much going on and I don't want it to be at my daughters expense. Then there is also a little boy in her class that has had to switch classes at the school twice this year so far due to behavioral problems. Last thing he did was hit a little girl in class. Good thing it wasn't my daughter.
Alright, so let me have it ladies. Should I put her in the private school where I know there won't be so many problems with bullying. Or should I wait it out and see?
For all that don't know private Christian schools cost about 5000.00 a year where as public is pretty much free. Which my family can handle (no more going out to eat as often though).
My daughter as most of you know is in kindergaten this year. I put her into the public school system. Not the best of choices I have discovered.
Heres what is going on. A couple of 5th graders are picking on her. I am pretty sure it is due to the fact that she is blond hair blue eyed, and thin. These other girls have seemed to pick my daughter out and decided to start giving her a hard time. I found out about this and told my daughter to tell a teacher if it happens again. Well she did, and the teacher did nothing except tell her we need to all be friends. Again these girls are in 5th grade and mine is 5 years old.
We ended up going to a private school this afternoon to see about putting her in there. I am 99% sure that we will do this on Monday. The school she is at has a bullying problem and even the school counselor told me that today when I talked to her.
My question is am I over reacting about this?
One other problem is my daughters teacher is 25 years old, going through a bad divorce and works a night job too. I feel she has too much going on and I don't want it to be at my daughters expense. Then there is also a little boy in her class that has had to switch classes at the school twice this year so far due to behavioral problems. Last thing he did was hit a little girl in class. Good thing it wasn't my daughter.
Alright, so let me have it ladies. Should I put her in the private school where I know there won't be so many problems with bullying. Or should I wait it out and see?
For all that don't know private Christian schools cost about 5000.00 a year where as public is pretty much free. Which my family can handle (no more going out to eat as often though).
I read your post your 17 yrs old and no children who do you think you are telling Laura what to do?
Laura- It makes me mad when these teens have no children think they no what they are talking about......
Laura- It makes me mad when these teens have no children think they no what they are talking about......
I am so happy that you found a solution that works for you. My husband and I feel very blessed to have the means to do this for our children as well. Our system is really broken though that this is even an issue. How are your public schools funded? Where I live it is through property taxes. Which means of course that the more money you make, the better the area where you live, the more you pay in taxes and the better your schools are. This is truly unfair to those less fortunate and my heart goes out to those who have no other choice but to send their children to these broken and often times violent schools. Some of my friends tried to guilt me into sending my girls through the public system, telling me that getting involved would force a change. But as I mentioned before I wouldn't sacrifice my girls for a change that is so far off into the future, things are so messed up. I choose to believe that by giving my girls the best education I could provide it might inspire them to go on and change the world. I feel that we are blessed to be able to do this for our children.
um here's the thing. My daughter is 5 years old. I am not going to keep her in a school that is harmful for her learning just because she says she wants to. I as a parent have seen the bad in the school she was at, and ultimatly it is a parents decision on where to send their children. I don't really feel that you have read the postings as then you wouldn't be asking this question. I mean if I stated that my daughter started this new school and she was so happy, that usually means she was happy with it. As parents you can tell by your childrens behavior if something is off. I could see that, and then I spent time at the school to see what the issues were. I talked with many other mothers that had the same issues, but couldn't afford to put their kids in private schools.
When you get older K1990 and have your own children you will realize what a parent goes through to do the best for their child. You are seeing it from the aspect of a teens view, but my daughter is only in kindergarten. Are you aware that the first couple of years of school is the biggest thing for a child. Their brain is still growning and what happens in these years is very important.
My child is safe at this new school. As safe as she is going to be. My father went to this school, and me and my brothers went to this school, and now my daughter. It is a great school and we are putting our daughters well being before ours. My daughter is happy about this decision, as I stated earlier.
When you get older K1990 and have your own children you will realize what a parent goes through to do the best for their child. You are seeing it from the aspect of a teens view, but my daughter is only in kindergarten. Are you aware that the first couple of years of school is the biggest thing for a child. Their brain is still growning and what happens in these years is very important.
My child is safe at this new school. As safe as she is going to be. My father went to this school, and me and my brothers went to this school, and now my daughter. It is a great school and we are putting our daughters well being before ours. My daughter is happy about this decision, as I stated earlier.
I'm glad your little girl is happy about school and that is actually a very big thing. Ask her what she wants to do... if she wants to stay where she is or change schools that way you know that it won't affect her in a bad way because she helped decide on her school. Good luck!
I watched this morning while my daughter sat in on that class, and I was amazed how much one on one time the teacher could give the kids. 9 kids in the class, much better then the over crowded ones at the public. I am completely at peace with my decision, and my daughter is happy too. :)
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