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Round Robin or School?; Updated
Topic Started: Jul 31 2008, 03:21 PM (998 Views)
realeez
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Decisions, decisions...

I am trying to decide whether to send my dd to a round robin next year (where each mother does 1 day) where there is 6 kids (2 kids from one family) including her or sending her straight to school. Advantages of round robin is it's small, mothers running it, free, no rush for toilet training, she is on the younger end of the grade (sept b-day). Disadvantage is the from this group there would be only one girl* going on with her to Junior Kindergarten so will it be a harder adjustment - like how cliquey are girls at this age?! HELP!!!!!

* That girl is a few months older than her so may be in the older class come JK.
Edited by realeez, Jul 2 2009, 11:29 AM.
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tough decision. i wouldn't want to run something once a week in my house. it would be too much work with additional jobs. most parents send when their kid isn't trained yet- they have minimal accidents at school and then by sukkos they get trained.
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At this school, they'd call if a child had an accident and the mother would have to come and change her...
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If this is the same dd that you've mentioned regarding length of day, are you rethinking because you aren't sure that the school placement will meet her needs? Do you know if this round-robbin will definitely work out (ie that the other mothers won't decide part way through the year that they'd rather just keep their kids home - that won't work for you if you are working outside the home).
Do you know the other mothers for the round-robin and feel comfortable with their parenting style and their ability to cope with 6 kids?
Trying to think of all the variables here. I know it's not easy to decide where to place your kid.
FWIW, my older two kids didn't go till JK, and they fit in just fine.
And with the toilet training, although it isn't ideal, would they let her wear a pull-up? I wasn't happy about them asking me to send ds in a pull-up, but it allowed him to be in school in a setting that was the best for us as a family.
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Yes, it's the same daughter. This schedule would go from 9:30-1 pm so she'd still need to go somewhere until 2 as was arranged. A couple of these mothers did a round-robin in the past together and the whole plan sounds great. They are all really committed. Either way, for the time I work out of the house, I have that extra person to watch her but the round robin will help while I work from home. What I like about this setup is that it's mothers while the program is school is 20-year-olds mainly with a main morah who only comes for 1 hr a morning. While I am sure there are wonderful 20-year-olds around, I just personally feel that a mother is a mother and that to me is an ideal morah.

I could send her in a pull-up but if she would have a #2 in her pull-up, they would call me to come change her and that would probably be super embarrassing for her.

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JK girls can be quite cliquey, so if you're sending her into a group where all the other girls know each other she might have a harder time adjusting. But if you are sending her at the start of next year, then the kids will have had 2 months break from each other and I wouldn't worry too much.
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Right, I would only send her at the beginning of the following school year. I think the idea of sending her to a camp with the kids from that school will be a good one.

I have decided to go with the round robin and am waiting to make sure that it's OK with the other mothers and I have to call the BY principal which makes me nervous - hope I it's not an issue to differ acceptance!
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Sounds like you got some good answers, and this round-robbin is a good solution for you (besides the longer hours needed).
I hope BY is OK - I am guessing it isn't the first time they have had a parent re-asses their kids' readiness between applying and the start of the year. They change so much at this age.
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Sounds like you got some good answers, and this round-robbin is a good solution for you (besides the longer hours needed).
I hope BY is OK - I am guessing it isn't the first time they have had a parent re-asses their kids' readiness between applying and the start of the year. They change so much at this age.
I spoke with a good friend of mine who is on a similar track to me parenting wise. She babysat for my boys for a few months for a couple of hours a day while I worked and she made a camp last summer that dd went to so she got to know her. She totally thinks I am doing the best thing for my dd and also, this friend works in the baby room in BY so she is in the know over the there. She is going to tell me when they start registration for the summer camp run by the head morah who would have been teaching dd this coming year for an hour a day and the kids are mostly from the class she would be in. This way she will meet kids before the school year starts. Now I am waiting for the mother who I spoke to about the round robin to call me back before I call the principal!
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Just waiting for the last mother to give her OK. What a relief to take a break from toilet-training.
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yay!!!!!!
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I told dh that I think I put more thought into this round robin vs school than I did marrying him lol! I seriously agonized over this! He said it was a good thing ;)
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LOL!!

You ready to handle all those little ones on your days to have them?
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It will be cute - 6 kids including dd and it's just fridays. We are basically finished setting up the playroom so it will be nice!
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I would go NUTS doing fridays in the winter cause of Shabbos being so early. Though, it might make one more organized too :)
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