Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Simon says... on Jul 17th, 2013
Simon loves a hypothetical question. The problem is, he doesn’t always realize that a given question is hypothetical, and won’t take my explaining as much for an answer. I offer you a typical exchange: “Mama, how hot is it on the sun?” “I don’t know exactly, but crazy hot. Hot enough to heat our planet.” […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 27th, 2012
We just found out about an hour ago that Simon got into the college… er, elementary school, of our choice. He’ll join his nephew Ben, and (I hope) some familiar faces from KIP and his spring soccer team. Two of Agotich’s cousins might be there, too, as they currently attend Brandeis’s ESL head-start program. Matt […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 9th, 2012
This is my fifth post in two weeks about kindergarten. Oh! You only saw the one? Well, that’s because I spared you the tedium and me the embarrassment of the Great Kindergarten Freak-out of 2012. You’re welcome. Included in the missing posts were rages about the complexity of the system, confessions of test-score Excel spreadsheet […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 1st, 2012
I’m sitting at my desk right now, staring at the 2012-2013 Registration Packet for school next year. And after 3 months of reading, touring, interviewing, and stewing, I have arrived at an uncomfortable place. I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M GOING TO FILL THIS SUCKER OUT!! Three months of touring. Talking to parents and staff at […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica on Dec 9th, 2011
Simon has something he’d like to say: “I’m taking my talents to __________.” I kid, I kid.* I do honestly understand that this is not as high-stakes a game as most incoming kindergarten parents make it out to be, even if I can’t totally shake the anxiety myself. Honestly, I think Simon would do well […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica on Dec 7th, 2011
Now we come to two of the three schools we have visited to date: Bloom, our “resides” or neighborhood school, and the B-cluster school we have the best shot of getting into; Brandeis, the district-wide MST (math, science, technology) magnet school, and our favorite of the two magnets we toured. Helpfully, we visited these schools […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica on Dec 5th, 2011
When it came time to visit and rank schools, Matt and I began with the magnets. There are tons of them, but only a few interested us. Those were/are: The Brown School: A district-wide alternative, unstructured school that serves children K-12. Entrance is by lottery, and word on the street is that two children are […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 3rd, 2011
It’s hard to believe, but next year Simon is off to kindergarten. Among many other things, that means that this year Matt and I have been going through the school selection process. It is a truly nerve-wracking experience that seems to bring out the absolute worst in many of us, me included. In the last […]