I am now having scheduling issues. Remember how oldest DS is going to this special school this fall where he goes half days and then works from home the other half? I posted about it before. Well, he ended up adding in some extra classes that he should have, it includes Tennis. He has never been able to be on a school sports team before because our local public schools are very elitest and exclusionary about it. So now here is his schedule...he goes to school from 8:30-12:45 all days. Mon and Wed, when I pick him up, he needs to be at Tennis courts by 1:30. Then I come back for him at 3:30pm. Since ds has always had troubles fitting in and he is a weakish child, who is small for his age and always had health problems, I think having this physical activity is good for him. On Tues and Thurs, he stays on the school campus to do an art class. I don't have to pick him up until 3:30 on those days. Fridays, he just comes home at 12:45. OK...DD is taking a math class for 1 semester. It is in the mornings and she has to be there from 8:45-10:15, all days, 1 semester only. DS7 and DS5 have world history fun class on Tues at 10:30...not at the same place as the math class, in fact, about 15/20 minutes from the math class. Now I am wondering what should give here. DS14 has always had certain problems, so this is sort of an attempt to try to help him. (he has been in public school all along and has a processing disorder, to not be specific, and some health problems). DD really wants this math class and she has worked very hard and we try to reward good behavior and hard work and such. It seems as if the only place that can give is the World History class. The art class is flexible as it was offered multiple times. And I have not yet signed them up for Karate as I have not been able to tour places to check them out and such. Should I consider dropping the world history? Maybe not letting ds14 go to that school? Offer to DS14 to go to the local public school? Ok..I did offer that, he still wants to go to that other school. But the local public school has a bus and I won't be driving him anywhere. I am so frustrated and do not know what do to. OK..it looks like the World History Fun class doesn't start until 10:45 so it will be tight, but maybe we can make it. But it still will be a tight squeeze. I don't want to risk a speeding ticket. But it might work. But I am still stressing about doing this.
This is a hard one, you need to ask yourself if you want to spend all that time in a car, and then decide. , sorry can't really help you, but wil pray that you have the wisdom you need to make the choice.
Today, I realized, none of the art classes will work with the schedule also. It is DS14 that is the issue. I have to pick him up and drop him off 4 times a day within a 7 hr period. So that is the big issue.
No. I do not know of anyone in our area going to that school. It is in the next town over. Plus, it is so small, I think it will be highly unlikely we will meet anyone there from our area.
We ran into this problem last school year, though not at all as complicated as your situation! DD went to preschool in the next town over from 8:30 to 11:30 on Tuesday and Thursday, and DS went to kindergarten in our town from 8:40 to 11:40. The drive between the two is 15 minutes in good weather. I just decided that I'd have to pick up DD early. She didn't miss anything, as the last 10 minutes of her class was just "free time," anyways, and it worked in my favor because I didn't have to wait in the pick-up line. Drop-off was not a problem, as DH was able to take DD on his way to work.
That is going to be a huge struggle with a new baby. Having to pick up and drop off 4 times a day is a little excessive in my opinion. Even without a new baby I would be pretty hesitant. In two years when he is old enough for a drivers license then sure take as many classes in different places as you want. If your stressed just thinking about it I can only imagine what it would be having to do it every day. I'm not the kind of mom that wants to be driving all the time during the day and rushing around with the kids to make sure they are ontime to various things. There has to be some sort of compromise.
