Two days ago I was chatting with my new friend after we dropped our children off at the school bus stop.
She and her family moved in this area on July of last year, right before the new school year started. She searched around the elementary schools for her two young boys. She found one charter school in the neighbor city and applied the enrollment online. One boy was approved, but unfortunately, the other boy was in the waiting list. Since she didn’t want her two boys to go to the separate school, she enrolled them to the local public school. Her older boy has been having some issues with other classmates, and so, she started thinking about transferring her children to the charter school from next school year.
While I was listening to her, one idea strongly popped up in my head. It was the idea of transferring my daughter to the charter school from next school year.
Starting from this school year, my daughter frequently mentions she hates school.
Her main reason is about classmate friends.
For the previous three years started from kindergarten to second grade, she had four good friends in class. All of her good friends transferred to a different school. Two girls moved to another state, one girl left the school and started homeschooling, and one girl moved to the next city and transferred to the different school. My daughter said it is hard to get in to the girls who had already built a group of friends. I know exactly what she means. Since the school very rarely has a new student, the group of friends are firmly fixed and hard to get in.
As a parent, I have some reasons I don’t like this school very much.
First reason is about the entire school buildings. Everything, including classrooms, cafeteria, kitchen, bathrooms, and gym, are very old and dirty.
Second reason is a combination class. My daughter’s grade has two classes, and one class is a combination with the lower graders. The principal and the teacher always say they don’t have any issues. However, what I have heard from my daughter, other classmates, and their mothers are completely opposite. It seems to be a big issue to have the different graders in a class, doing different things at the same time.
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After I came back from chatting with my new friend, I called the carter school and made an appointment of the school tour.
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In the tour group, there were two other families. One mom had two children. She already applied online, and both children were approved. The other family had a little girl who will be a kindergartener. They came with the mom, and the grandmother, and the grandfather.
The principal and the vice principal escorted us to a variety of classrooms, cafeteria, gym, and playground.
The entire school buildings are clean and newer appearance. The local branch started in 2016. No wonder everything looks still new. They have many young female teachers.
The one hour tour was pretty informative. I liked the school very much.
Before I left the school, I made another school tour appointment. Next time I will come back with my husband and daughter, so that they can see and feel the school on their own.
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