Registration Day
Soooooo, today was kindergarten registration day at Fairfax.
My PTA job doing outreach to the incoming kindergarten families required that I be there for the entire two-and-a-half hour event this evening. I oversaw an art project for the kids who came along with their parents, took families on tours of the building, and answered lots and lots of questions.
But I did not register my own child.
Of course, it’s not too late. I have all summer to register him at the Board of Ed should we change our minds. But for right now, as of this particular day, we will not be sending Austin to kindergarten next year.
Is it the right decision? Who knows. But I do know that it’s not the wrong decision.
I think you’ve made the right decision! Enjoy Austin for one more year before school starts and he’s gone everyday. They’re only little once and the time goes by so quickly so just enjoy Austin!
I don’t think I commented previously on this issue – although I did in my head. I did not delay my #2 son from beginning kindergarten – and his birthday is Oct 30. In retrospect, I think it would have helped him in his social development to start school a year later. It wasn’t intelligence or size – so it really didn’t seem like a big issue at the time. there’s so much I didn’t know. After you started writing about this, I asked him the question. He says he hasn’t really thought about it in that way, but it would have been better for him if he had been 2 years behind son#1 in school, rather than 1. I’m just putting this up here. We can go into more depth in person. xxx000
Either way, Austin will be fine!!!!! Just ENJOY him!!!!