Emma's School Track

We just enrolled Emma in school for next year. As some of you know Emma misses the cutoff for Kindergarten by 3 days. The cutoff is September 1st and E's birthday is September 4th. As of now the educational plan she will follow is.

2010-2011- Pre-K at Lighthouse Christian Academy (3 days a week).
2011-2012-Kindergarten at Lighthouse Christian Academy (5 days a week-maybe)
2012-2013- Kindergarten at our local Elementary School

There are a couple of things that are still up in the air about this schedule. I have been told that they will let Emma in their kinder program at Lighthouse next year, if for some reason they don't have a Kinder program I do have a back-up that has offered to let her in their program. I am still up in the air about her going 5 days a week. Because E's Preschool is an all day type of program having her in Kinder there 5 days a week would essentially be like having her in daycare. I have nothing against daycare but I don't work so she does not have to go to any program full time. I don't really want my kids in a full time daycare program which is the main reason I stay home, by going to Lighthouse 5 days a week she is essentially in a full time daycare program. So this is still up in the air.

The other thing that is a little unsure is where Emma will go to Elementary school. Our neighborhood is broken into 4 sections the back two sections (one that we live in and one that they are building some very large houses in) have been redistricted to go to a different school than the one in our neighborhood. Our kids are now assigned to a low performing school nearby. The district claims it is because the "local" school was too big. This is just not the case. I fought this decision with other local parents and we lost. The real and sad truth is that they put our kids at a lower performing school to help bring up test scores. They needed kids from a higher socioeconomic background to bring up those scores. If Emma stays assigned to this particular school we have two options 1. Move- if the housing market recovers we will take this option, we are starting to put some money and work into our house to list it in the next two years. This is also necessary for us. Andrew and I are 90% sure that there will be a Baby Wallace
#3 in the future and we will need more space to make that happen. 2. Send Emma to private school- This option is not the financially sound one, but we are willing to do this if the housing market does not recover.

Anyway so that is Emma's future educational track. I know that anything could change at the drop of a hat so only time will tell. I know God has big plans for my little girl this is all in his hands.