He's registered for K!
So today was the huge day, registering Hunter for kindergarten to start in September.
as various outside monitors passed by too fast for me to ask, finally gave up waiting and meandered equally cluelessly inside to the office and was given a number (#29) and moved upstairs to the gym where I waited for about 25 minutes for registration to open. It was the familiar fun of feeling completely out of place amongst the middle-aged, well-to-do soccer moms and dads, most of whom were wearing various forms of spandex and toting two or three kids along with them. If you added my age and Hunter's age together, we're still about a decade younger than the average age of parents there. Ah well.
Everyone dived for the Kindergarten French immersion programs and the line was 20 or more deep, so I opted for the English afternoon classes, which nobody wanted as the line consisted of one woman in front of me and myself. They don't tell on the spot whether you're in or not, I suppose for now we'll simply assume we are and wait for a call closer to.
The school is very nice and everyone is friendly. The sad part is that the school itself is only about fifteen houses down from mine but they're doing seismic upgrading starting in September and for the upcoming school year all the students are transferred about two miles away, near his old daycare, so we still get the two-bus commute which I was oh-so looking forward to doing away with.
I was eyeballing a list of "skills your child should have before they start kindergarten" and it seems so silly to me. Perhaps I'm missing something but isn't the entire point of kindergarten to educate them in most of those skills? What is the point of drill-educating your kids before they go to be drill-educated in kindergarten? If they happen to pick up early learning that's great but various relatives seem to be stressing at me that somehow, it's this terrible sin that Hunter isn't a proficient counter or reciter of the alphabet yet. To me, that's the entire point of starting them in school and I'm not particularly fussed about teaching him beforehand. If I was going to start drilling these things, I'd have opted for homeschooling, wouldn't I?