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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).
We live in Indiana about 2 hours from Louisville, KY. I am sure that you probably can guess where we live.
Thank you for that. Your right, I don't want my girls to live in constant fear of going to school where the adults there aren't protecting them.
I have one chance to raise my girls, and I feel this is best for their education.
I have one chance to raise my girls, and I feel this is best for their education.
You are right that a child's whole school experience is affected by the early years of education. So, I do beleive that the kindergarten experience is a huge marker in forming the love of learning. My children went to a private Montessori school for preschool and kindergarten. Then as luck would have it a Montessori Charter was opened in time for my olderst to attend first grade. She is now in a private high school and doing very, very well, socially and academically. My younger daughter is still the in Charter (it goes through the 6th grade) and she is happy too. I got a lot of critism for not sending my kids to the public school. At the time we were living in a district with a very poor reputation. Unfortunately, there was a lot of racial tension and the test scores were also very poor. I mean how can children learn when they are in constant fear. A lot of people gave me the "nothing will change if you pull your kids out of public school" speech and on the surface I agree with the idealogy. However, I was not going to have my children be sacrificial lambs. I say if you have the means and you have a good feeling about the private school then go for it.
If I may ask what city in KY do you live in? We live in Louisville. Do you live in the same city? If so, which part of town?
Barbarella I just realized you live in KY by what your profile states, but then again it also says your 106 hehehe. No, but I don't live to far from you. You probably know the school district that I am talking about.
Laura,
I'd LOVE to live in the country. Do what April said "listen to your heart".
April, we never have been to Japan. Did you like it? Is it a pretty country? Are the people friendly?
I'd LOVE to live in the country. Do what April said "listen to your heart".
April, we never have been to Japan. Did you like it? Is it a pretty country? Are the people friendly?
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