I've posted about this in part before, but here it is again, as I'm still in a quandry.
DS is 2 and a half. We live in a rural area and the preschool and elementary schools are quite good. (He'll go to preschool two days a week starting next fall, and then the next year when he's 4 he'll go three days a week. He'll attend elementary school ages 5-11 or so.)
The middle/high school, however (ages 11-18) is not that great. There is one geography class which the students take for half a year when they're 13 or so. The history and math programs are terrible. The only language they have to choose from is Spanish, and I don't think it's required.
I don't want DS to attend the high school. However, I don't want him to start at the elementary school, make lots of friends for 7 years, and then be sent to an entirely new school. I feel like when he's 5 and starts kindergarten, I'd like him to be at the school he's going to be at for the entire time.
There is a school I'd love to have DS go to. It's about two and half hours away, obviously we'd have to move. I really, really like our community, though, and we're only ten minutes away from the "family farm" where DH's parents live, as well as my BIL, SIL and their children. (My parents are already a 5 hour drive away, so that's not an issue.)
DS is (and I know I sound horribly biased ) a clever little guy, and I know that he'll do well at the high school even though it's not good, and we could fill in the gaps of his education with books, extra lessons, etc. However, I'd really like for him to get a great education at school so his home life can be, well, home and not school.
Sorry this is so long, but WWYD?
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CheerfulYank · 28/01/2010 18:17
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