preschool around here is ridiculous

[sonrisa]

The baby is 21 months. When she was a newborn we put her name down on the list for two local schools. We plan to start her in a year. She got her first acceptance/start date letter today. It was from the "right" school. Apparently we need to go to orientation classes in the spring.

My law school didn't have this much pomp and circumstance about matriculation.

[MWOS]

Instead of a White Coat Ceremony does she get an Art Smock Ceremony?

Also, congratulations on her acceptance!!

[drrn04]

What the whut?

That is insane. I mean, I knew places like that existed, but I didn't know that they were, like, real.

Not sure that makes sense. Probably not.

I just cannot fathom having to put my kid on a list 3 years in advance. I couldn't even pick pictures for or order birth announcements until 4 months out. Preschool? Not even on my radar. But thank goodness you were on the ball!

[snipsnsnails]

Ha, I am behind for V and all of the moms I talk to remind me of it. It's a year away!!!

[sonrisa]

This isn't even the fancier pants one with interviews and almost 20K in tuition.

Snips - there are only four in town. I just added her name to the third one last week. The first two were chance.

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ugh. creepy.

[Deleted]

Well congratulations to you on getting in to the right one DD's preschool last year was sort of like that. And tuition to make you gasp.

Have you seen Nursery University? (documentary about NYC preschool admissions) We watched it and it made us feel better about the preschool craziness here. But it sounds like your area may be as bad as NYC. In any case, it was an entertaining movie!

[sonrisa]

Oh no, not NYC like - thank goodness. Except for the early sign up and "orientation classes" we haven't been jumping through the hoops I hear about in SF proper (real applications, interviews for parents and kids, cultivating connections and relationships, etc).

The future scholar is currently running in circles in a diaper and my straw hat.

[monkeyknifefight]

We had to send in a head shot and an essay with our app.