Mommathon

Before Sean and I even had kids we always said we wanted them to go to school A (we’ll call it that for anonymity-I have no idea who is reading this blog). My brothers went there and since they are 13 years younger than me we got to see what a great school it was. We had Liam enrolled there last year for kinder, but with our house not selling and moving and all of that jazz we forfeited our deposit and decided not to send him. I am SO glad we made that decision. There is NO WAY we could have packed, moved and done everything that had to be done to build this house and still gotten him to school and picked up each day. I am also glad we sent him to the school he went to this year. It was a great way for him to meet the neighborhood kids, he has a great teacher and the school is wonderful, too. We are in a position now, however, to send both Liam and Colm to school A now. I called them on Tuesday, the boys had their evaluations at the school on Thursday, we got the paperwork for next school year on Friday and we sent it back in on Saturday. There was only one spot left in first grade next year so we snapped it up. They are a private Catholic school in an urban setting that goes from Montessori (preschool) through Grade 8. It is a small school with only two sections of each grade with a policy of twenty or fewer kids per class. They have an indoor pool (which is ancient!) where the kids take weekly swim lessons, they begin learning French at the Montessori level, since it is in the city it is both racially and economically diverse (which is very important to us considering the reputation our county has for its affluence and whiteness), all students are evaluated before being offered a spot at the school (you don’t have to be a genius, but a certain level of smarts and behavior are expected), we love the history (our kids will be there for the school’s 100th anniversary) and it is Catholic. Another thing I noticed when we were walking around that is in the middle school level, their lockers didn’t have locks and most of them were ajar. I love it! They don’t need locks because that kind of crap doesn’t happen around there. I also love how they combine subjects for the little guys. For example, their P.E. class is conducted in French. There is one downside. It is not close, but there are several families around here who go there and the school is very good about helping families set up carpools since people drive from all over the metro to get to the school. I am so excited, but more importantly…so are the boys!