First day of kindergarten - do you plan to walk your child to the classroom?

[Anonymous]

Our school allows parents to walk on the first day and the PTA has a breakfast set up for K parents. The idea is to drop your kid off then come sniffle over coffee and danish. Make the parents feel better and also clears the rooms for the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Both ds and dd walked to elementary school and I would tag along

Those moments of time were my happiest , an elementary school is filled with happy children and adults, everyone is in a good mood

Now they sre selfish, moody, grumpy teenagers

I would definitely walk my kids to school, everyday

[Anonymous]

At my kids elementary school parents are welcome to stay the entire first two days. Most parents are gone by recess on the first day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids elementary school parents are welcome to stay the entire first two days. Most parents are gone by recess on the first day.

You are shitting me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my kids elementary school parents are welcome to stay the entire first two days. Most parents are gone by recess on the first day.

You are shitting me.

I don't shit anybody.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Both ds and dd walked to elementary school and I would tag along

Those moments of time were my happiest , an elementary school is filled with happy children and adults, everyone is in a good mood

Now they sre selfish, moody, grumpy teenagers

I would definitely walk my kids to school, everyday

There's a difference between walking kids to school and walking them into the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PLEASE don't walk your K kid INTO the room. signed K teacher

My 2 cents: there will always be a handful that have a hard time no matter what. But, if you properly prepare your DC for the first day then the vast majority (even shy ones like my DD) will be fine. We spent time at all the open houses in the summer (they host 3 popsicle socials with the K teachers), attended orientation, took her to the class the week before when we dropped off our school supplies (the whole school does this). We talked to her and walked through what she had to do. There was no need for me to walk her in.

You are making it very difficult on the teachers by walking them in. Those parents that disrespect the procedure and walk them in always -ALWAYS- leave their crying and distraught child behind for the teachers to deal with. Not cool, imo.

Obviously, if your school allows it, that's another story. But, our school has 1000 kids in it (FCPS) and catering to a bunch of crying Kindergarteners (when they may otherwise not) is not feasible. Starting K was harder for me than my DC b/c we prepared her.

[Anonymous]

We walked our daughter to her room and left. She was a little upset but didn't cry. Our school did not have the numerous pre-school events that the pp mentioned and in fact, at orientation, the teachers invited parents to walk their kids in

[Anonymous]

Parents find it so hard to believe that their kid quits crying as soon as they leave. Almost always. But, the longer they stay, the longer the kid cries after the parent leaves. K teacher

[Anonymous]

I taught one kid whose mom brought him every a.m. Both were always crying. The door didn't shut behind her before he was laughing and playing. This went on for months.

[Anonymous]

Our APS school doesn't allow parents to walk students in. You can walk them as far as the flagpole, but that's it. Every 5th grader is assigned to a kindergarten to assist them in getting to where they need to go.

[Anonymous]

The first day parents if kindergartners are allowed to walk them back, but they don't stay. After that patrols walk them back. The front office gets pretty tight with the signing in of visitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PLEASE don't walk your K kid INTO the room. signed K teacher

What do you recommend that parents do? I would be very interested in getting candid response from a kindergarten teacher? DH thinks she should just put DC on the bus and not go through all the drama of meeting her at the school, taking pictures, etc. But then again, I don't want her to feel like she's the only there the 1st day without a parent.

I had no idea that people walked their K kids into school the first day. Both of mine were put on the school bus (with the obligatory photos taken at the bus stop). They were both excited to ride the bus and there were plenty of staff to help the kindergartners on the first day and beyond.

Yep, my DD will go on the bus the first day, I can't wait (but she's my second so we're seasoned veterans at this point). The K kids wear name tags that first week and as others said their are also teachers and older kids specifically designated to help them out (the 5th graders take this responsibility pretty seriously). They all sit at the front of the bus and get off first (all year) with people (kids/teachers) waiting to escort them (again, all year). Oh, and we already bought the school supplies online this past May, they'll be waiting in the classroom the first day. This is Arlington, not sure how other school systems do it.

Pretty much every encounter we've had with other rising K families the kids are oldest in their families (or only children), similarly in my daughter's private PreK she is one of only 2 kids that has an older sibling... I suspect this is going to make for much first day anxiety and angst this year as lots of people go through this milestone for the first time.

[Anonymous]

I walked her in for about a week. Then my DH said enough, its time for kiss and ride. She was nervous the first day but loved it after that and felt really big.