I have been thinking about the best option for my daughter regarding the school. She wanted to go to the new school from this upcoming school year.
The new school is located in the next town. It doesn’t have a school bus, so that all the parents are required to drop off and pick up their children. Their parking lot is small and the neighboring streets are not wide enough to accommodate all the parents and guardians. I can easily imagine the hectic traffic jam in both the school start time and dismissal time. It takes us a 20-minutes’ drive to get there from our house. I know it will be a huge pain for me to drive back and forth, twice a day every day.
The new school’s academic standard is higher than the local public school. That is what I like and what I wanted my daughter to have the higher and better education.
I have so many concerns that I wanted to discuss with the principal of the new school. I sent a request of a meeting with her at the end of May. I never received a reply from her for more than one month. My husband called the school and left a message to her too. He never received a reply from her neither.
I started thinking about this situation. This might be the answer for me. If the principal never replied back to the parents at this moment, it will be the same situation during the school year. It means whenever we need the principal’s guidance or support, we will never receive it.
As for the local public school, on the other hand, their academic standard is lower than the national average. The good thing about the local school is though, they have a school bus. It is located within the walking distance from our house. The school accommodates small amount of local kids. The people including the teachers and the faculty members are the local people. It makes us feels comfortable that we know each other by names.
The biggest reason that I didn’t like the local public school was their combination class. They combined the different graders in one class for the previous two years.
I had been asking for a clear guidance from my family spirits for our decision.
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Today I had an opportunity to talk to the principal of the local public school.
He confirmed they will not have a combination class for my daughter’s grade. He assigned a nice and kind teacher for my daughter.
He told me he received an academic record request from the new private school. He wanted to know if my daughter will go to the new school or not.
For his question, I, without thinking, instantly answered that my daughter will stay in the local public school. I myself was surprised that I answered that quickly.
After I gave the school principal a clear answer about our decision, I felt so relieved. I felt this was the right decision for us.
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