Recently it has been brought to our attention that its time to get our booties in gear and start thinking about Ethan going to Kindergarten. We have always know that he was going to go to a Charter school right down the street from our house, we were ready to camp out and wait to be one of the few slots available for Kinder classes however when I called to get the enrollment information they informed me it has been changed to lottery(meaning that they put all the enrolling kids into a bucket basically and pull names out until they reach the amount of kids they need to fill that grade level) this devastated us and for once we now feel like he may not get into that school and that we are stuck looking at additional schools with great test scores, with awesome teachers, with no ghettoness, and that doesn't tolerate bullying. Shauna and I began asking other parents what their opinions were and how they liked their schools. We managed to narrow our list down to 7 schools and we are planning on enrolling in all seven of them because I don't want the school names listed on a public website I'm going to call our 1st choice- School A, 2nd choice- School B, 3rd choice- School C, 4th choice-School D, 5th choice-School E, 6th choice-School F, and 7th choice-School G as I'm explaining things further. School A we can not enroll until April 15th and we wont find out if we got in until the 1st week of May. I have already enrolled him into School B, I had to sit outside from 530am until 900am so I could be one of the 1st people and I have to say that it has totally paid off. Ethan had his assessment test today where they asked him shapes, colors, numbers, ABC's, and his name and he passed everything with flying colors!!! He has to now learn the alphabet sounds and 3 dimensional shapes but he knew what he was suppose to and we also got told that he has made it into the PM kindergarten class and that he is #1 on the waiting list for AM kindergarten there. (we prefer AM for our schedules) School B has the highest test scores in our area 933 out of 1000! they are uniform based and I really really liked it there. School C hes already enrolled but #25 on the waiting list and its all day so we aren't holding on to it. School D we are now skipping, School E we are now skipping as both schools are all day kinder and since School B is guaranteed we don't need them as backups. School E we enroll April 9th and find out by May, and lastly School F is also ideal for us because AM and PM classes are both really early and will work for us so we enroll there April 15th and find our the1st week of May also.
I am beyond stoked and so proud of him that he did so well on his test and that he has gotten into one of the best schools here so even if School A doesn't work out of us, at least we know he will be able to attend an awesome school. I will update on all the school stuff probably in May as well know more then. I am sad he is growing up but seeing him today made me so proud to be his mommy and I know he will excel in whatever he tries in life!! I'm about to be the mommy of a KINDERGARTNER eeeeekkkkk
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