Kaiea Got Into School!
I know it's not AMAZING news for you guys, but Maria and I have been working on this for this entire year. We've toured a bunch of schools, submitted Kaiea to 6 public schools for lottery and Kai ended up on 6 wait lists. We've spent the summer making weekly calls to each of the schools admissions reps.
This week was the first week of public schools in DC and we started our rounds of phone calls and follow-up emails, working on alternative plans and waiting for any possible good news. We were beginning to fear the worst and started looking into a home schooling network when we gave our last ditch effort to our number 1 choice.
We wrote a lengthy email pleading our case and letting them know why we believed they are the best fit for Kai. And after several cliff-hanger phone calls, we received word that a student had not shown up for 1st grade all week and they were giving the spot to us!
We're so excited! John Eaton http://www.eatondc.org/ is an Expeditionary Learning ES and has a great system for integrating their subjects into learning units that follow themes.
He starts on Monday and Maile starts her first day at Kai's old preschool on Wednesday.
Julie and Kimie if you guys have any thoughts or lessons learned in dealing with or anticipating first time elementary school jitters or other "good to know" facts please shoot me an email or give me a call... Maria and I haven't fully realized the full impact yet, but I'm sure we will!
Happy Friday!
-Jon
I know it's not AMAZING news for you guys, but Maria and I have been working on this for this entire year. We've toured a bunch of schools, submitted Kaiea to 6 public schools for lottery and Kai ended up on 6 wait lists. We've spent the summer making weekly calls to each of the schools admissions reps.
This week was the first week of public schools in DC and we started our rounds of phone calls and follow-up emails, working on alternative plans and waiting for any possible good news. We were beginning to fear the worst and started looking into a home schooling network when we gave our last ditch effort to our number 1 choice.
We wrote a lengthy email pleading our case and letting them know why we believed they are the best fit for Kai. And after several cliff-hanger phone calls, we received word that a student had not shown up for 1st grade all week and they were giving the spot to us!
We're so excited! John Eaton http://www.eatondc.org/ is an Expeditionary Learning ES and has a great system for integrating their subjects into learning units that follow themes.
He starts on Monday and Maile starts her first day at Kai's old preschool on Wednesday.
Julie and Kimie if you guys have any thoughts or lessons learned in dealing with or anticipating first time elementary school jitters or other "good to know" facts please shoot me an email or give me a call... Maria and I haven't fully realized the full impact yet, but I'm sure we will!
Happy Friday!
-Jon
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