The Stress of Choosing a School
This entry was posted on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 6:46 am and is filed under Education. |My daughter is currently in pre-kindergarten, which is a program Florida now funds. You get a voucher and you can use it at a number of public and private school. I have her in a program at a Christian school right now and she loves it.
Believe it or not, though, it is time for me to get the final paperwork at schools for this fall. She can simply go to one of the local public schools, but there are other options. I need to figure out, first of all, if I can afford to continue sending her to the Christian school. I am pretty sure I cannot and I think I bring in quite literally five hundred dollars too much to get a state scholarship for the school. I am absolutely that middle-class single parent that is stuck in between brackets.
There are three charter schools within a reasonable driving distance of the house I have her application in at the arts school, but I have to finish the more detailed applications required by the other two schools. Both of the schools have a focus on Greek, and that makes sense since we have a large Greek population in the north part of the county. I am quite keen in her attending a school where she can learn a useful second language.
The charter schools in Florida must use a lottery system for all students who would like to enter for kindergarten, just to keep things fair. All I can do is pray. If she gets the lottery at one of the charters, she will get a private school education for the price of a public school – free.
My dream was to home school, but with my divorce that is probably not an option. As it stands, I am floored that I have to be thinking about her schooling for this coming fall so early. I actually started all of this back in November, so it has been a lengthy process already.