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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She'll adjust. Some charters are more child-centered (Two Rivers, ITS) but very hard to get into.  I think the best thing you can do is minimize the time she's in after/before-care so she can play at home. [/quote]

We don't do before or after care. She cried this morning from the time she woke up until we left for school, and then she walked into school like a scolded puppy. It breaks my heart... :(
Her sister is in the same school and loves it, so I know it's just that my child needs more play. They do sit in their desks A LOT, and then even have silent lunches for the first 10 mins or so.[/quote]

Well maybe aftercare a few days, assume it is the run-around kind, not the stay inside and color kind, would be a good idea even if you don't really need the child care?

Are you really up for having each kid in a different school, or would you move sibling as well?[/quote]

I would probably move the sibling as well but I know it could mean that for a year they would be in 2 different schools. I am willing to deal with that because [b]it's better than having a child crying every morning because she doesn't want to go to school[/b].[/quote]

That seems excessive if she merely wishes there were more playtime.  It seems many kids might want more playtime, but aren't crying daily about it.  Do you think something else could be going on, like a problem with the teacher, or classmates?  I'd probe more.[/quote]

Thank you! This is my oldest and all this I new to me. I appreciate your advice a lot!

+1 to probing more as to what is going on here.

I would want to know what she would rather be doing instead of whatever they are doing in school. I have a 3rd grader, and in 1st grade, she really struggled with the transition from having a lot of choice time and centers (as they had in PK and K) to having more academic work completed at a desk. While it was hard for me to watch her hate going to school, I also recognized that due to the culture where we live, to an extent, she kind of just had to get over the frustration and do the work as it was structured. We (her teacher and I) did what we could to help. The teacher allowed her to do some of her work in the classroom library, which involved sitting in a beanbag chair on the floor instead of a desk, but that was really the only thing that the teacher herself could do. They also had the first 10 minutes of lunch silent, which I found fairly mean but also understood the rationale behind. For my part, I tried to maximize play in the rest of her life. [/quote][/quote]

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