Our kids are stupid....

...because, despite having a free, public school system, there is no room/$ for the fundamental schooling they could get from Kindergarten.

I'm stressing right now over the fact that, in order to make ends meet, I need to work. However, our local Elementary school only has ONE (1) full day Kindergarten class. And that class will be filled at 22 kids. THEN, there is only an AM Kindergarten. PM Kindergarten is not an option.

Oh and did I mention that the after school program is not really an AFTER SCHOOL program. It starts at 3. So if my kid is in AM Kindergarten, there is nowhere to send him after school while I'm at work. There is kind of a PM K, but it's only for Special Education students (who are probably getting their education subsidized even further by state grants).

My only other option for full day Kindergarten is to send him to a parochial school and pay tuition. And I'm not even at permanent job (I'm only temping - it's the only thing I could find in this economy right now). So I may not even have a job come September. So if I pay the deposit for the parochial school and send him there, then how am I supposed to pay for it if I don't have a job (or a paying-enough job) by then?

This is so flippin crazy!

at least if the school had a PM Kindergarten, I'd be able to do something PT, since he could participate in the afterschool program. But NOOOOOOO! Why couldn't they put the special kids in the morning?!!!

And to top it all off, we won't know WHICH (AM or full day) he gets into until August - just before school starts. It seems the administrators need some SPECIAL education!

I'm so frakkin PO'd about all this! UGH!!!!!