08-10-2017, 04:40 PM
This is the last week I get to sleep in. School starts Monday and I'm homeschooling the little drop out for one more year.
I don't remember if I mentioned this, but the biggest reason for me homeschooling is the school's policy on drop off and pick up. Years ago I was able to drop off the older kids right at the teacher's door, but I guess due to security changes they don't want parents in the school anymore. You have to drop the kids off at the gate and they meet with their teachers in the cafeteria or library. Well I'm not comfortable with that for kindergarten and first grade, I need to know that my child is with her teacher and accounted for. They have the gate open on the other side by the office, whose to say that someone couldn't sneak in through all the chaos of a thousand kids running around and tell some kid that they're a teacher and come with me. Then you never see your kid again. Not that it's likely, but I don't like having that on my mind none the less.
I don't remember if I mentioned this, but the biggest reason for me homeschooling is the school's policy on drop off and pick up. Years ago I was able to drop off the older kids right at the teacher's door, but I guess due to security changes they don't want parents in the school anymore. You have to drop the kids off at the gate and they meet with their teachers in the cafeteria or library. Well I'm not comfortable with that for kindergarten and first grade, I need to know that my child is with her teacher and accounted for. They have the gate open on the other side by the office, whose to say that someone couldn't sneak in through all the chaos of a thousand kids running around and tell some kid that they're a teacher and come with me. Then you never see your kid again. Not that it's likely, but I don't like having that on my mind none the less.