School Bells Are Ringing!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

DC will be attending Beauvoir this fall Despite the on-going investigation we are very excited. Just wondering how other new parents are feeling about their DC attending school this fall at area Independent schools. What are parents doing to get Pre - K and K students prepared for their new learning environments. If possible please state your DC school!!!

[Anonymous]

Not getting this worked up about it when we still have a month of summer to enjoy, that's for sure.

[Anonymous]

They should rename this site the mommy wars. It's amazing how some people lie in wait to send bitchy emails when someone is asking what is a perfectly sane question.

To OP, before my DC entered Pre-K (Beauvoir) I talked with him excitedly about it a few weeks before so that he was happy to go. My son came from a preschool where a lot of children were going to Beauvoir the next year, so he knew a lot of kids at entry. If your child won't know anyone, you might wait try to arrange a playdate or two with kids you know will be entering with your child.

[Anonymous]

We have not been playing it up as DD is sad to leave her preschool just as much as she's excited to move on. When we do discuss it we remind her that her best friend, as well as many others from her preschool, will be attending the same school, and that she'll be able to visit her preschool quite a few times in the coming year.

[Anonymous]

I share your excitement, although this will be our second year at independent school. We actually did not talk too much about the new school before DC started last fall, as he is a worrier and has nightmares even though he SAID he was excited and happy about the new school during daylight hours! So we took him to see the school several times during the week before school started, and he had a playdate with one little boy in his class about 2 weeks before the first day. Enjoy ... it is really a fun time for both you and your child!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should rename this site the mommy wars. It's amazing how some people lie in wait to send bitchy emails when someone is asking what is a perfectly sane question.

To OP, before my DC entered Pre-K (Beauvoir) I talked with him excitedly about it a few weeks before so that he was happy to go. My son came from a preschool where a lot of children were going to Beauvoir the next year, so he knew a lot of kids at entry. If your child won't know anyone, you might wait try to arrange a playdate or two with kids you know will be entering with your child.

Please help me to understand what upset you so much that you had to use the "B" word?

[Anonymous]

Shouldn't parents of children entering public school also be excited, especially parents of kindergarteners? I find it a little curious that you're only interested in responses from private school parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should rename this site the mommy wars. It's amazing how some people lie in wait to send bitchy emails when someone is asking what is a perfectly sane question.

To OP, before my DC entered Pre-K (Beauvoir) I talked with him excitedly about it a few weeks before so that he was happy to go. My son came from a preschool where a lot of children were going to Beauvoir the next year, so he knew a lot of kids at entry. If your child won't know anyone, you might wait try to arrange a playdate or two with kids you know will be entering with your child.

Please help me to understand what upset you so much that you had to use the "B" word?

What got me upset was the first response to the post. Why do people submit these snarky responses? Because OP's excited about school next year? Because she said the word "Beauvoir"? Sorry if my B word (bitchy) offended you. It's my guess that for other people, the B word that gets them riled up is Beauvoir.

[Anonymous]

In response to 14:13, I'm not the OP, but I'm guessing that this person would agree that ALL parents are excited about sending child off to kindergarten. In the case of independent schools, however, there is an extra layer of excitement because one survived the application process and are now about to see the fruits of that labor (you hope!). And by survived, I don't mean you got DC into the most elite school ... I truly mean survived with some sanity!

[Anonymous]

I took the OP as a kind of bragging. I don't get riled up over Beauvoir -- my DC went there -- but I do think its odd that people feel the need to advertise the fact that their child goes there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took the OP as a kind of bragging. I don't get riled up over Beauvoir -- my DC went there -- but I do think its odd that people feel the need to advertise the fact that their child goes there.

I didn't take it as advertising. I took it as mentioning where her child would go to school. I don't think anyone would have shot back a snarky remark had she said her child was starting pre-k at Lowell. You can either interpret that as the OP being hifilutin mentioning Beauvoir or the responding poster being unnecessarily judgmental just because Beauvoir was mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should rename this site the mommy wars. It's amazing how some people lie in wait to send bitchy emails when someone is asking what is a perfectly sane question.

To OP, before my DC entered Pre-K (Beauvoir) I talked with him excitedly about it a few weeks before so that he was happy to go. My son came from a preschool where a lot of children were going to Beauvoir the next year, so he knew a lot of kids at entry. If your child won't know anyone, you might wait try to arrange a playdate or two with kids you know will be entering with your child.

Please help me to understand what upset you so much that you had to use the "B" word?

What got me upset was the first response to the post. Why do people submit these snarky responses? Because OP's excited about school next year? Because she said the word "Beauvoir"? Sorry if my B word (bitchy) offended you. It's my guess that for other people, the B word that gets them riled up is Beauvoir.

I understand, but the "B" word is strong. I think that the second post was just saying that she/he has not gotten into it yet. My dd will be starting at Norwood this fall, she is my oldest. I am a bit disappointed that I am not more excited than I am, I thought that I would be more into it. I guess since these kids do so much day care and nursery school now, the first day of school is not as big a deal as when I was coming up.

I have however been trying to curb my dd's sailor mouth that she picked up from some boys at camp. Otherwise, no preparation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In response to 14:13, I'm not the OP, but I'm guessing that this person would agree that ALL parents are excited about sending child off to kindergarten. In the case of independent schools, however, there is an extra layer of excitement because one survived the application process and are now about to see the fruits of that labor (you hope!). And by survived, I don't mean you got DC into the most elite school ... I truly mean survived with some sanity!

This may be true, but I think that many people with children entering kindergarten at a public school have also gone through a challenging process. In DC, they may have spent months visiting schools, weighing local against charter against immersion and so on, waiting anxiously for the outcome of school lotteries, and then suffering through the summer on a wait list. Others may have spent months researching school systems in different communities and then yet more months trying to find a house in the district where they want to live. Still others may have gone through the private school application process and decided in the end to send their children to public school.

There may be true differences between the experiences of public and private school parents, but I think drawing artificial ones such as this one feeds the perception that private school parents want to see themselves as different, even superior. And for the record, my child will be entering kindergarten at an independent school this fall.

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with PP. Applying to private schools is a decision many of us have made but finishing the process is hardly an achievement. There are so many aspects of raising children that are truly challenging -- I have my own personal list and I'm sure others do as well. Applying to private schools is not even close to making the list.

I fear this discussion board just promotes this ethos about private schools that is self-congratulatory.

[Anonymous]

People, it is your CHILD who is starting a new school/ new adventure, not you!! I think the first poster's response was a reaction to OP's tone... she sounds like a helicopter parent-to-be who lives her life vicariously through her perfect, precious child. Ugh. Just what this city needs more of.