We win!

[semperfiona]

Rosa's going to public school next fall. Ray actually felt that the
public school had its act together better, and that the facilities and
specialty offerings were better. He still thought she'd get a better
"morality" education from Catholic school, but the other things seemed
to outweigh that.

With the following conditions: We're to drop her off at school and pick
her up for at least the first year rather than sending her on the bus.
Starting in the first grade she's to go to Public School Religion
classes on Wednesday nights, and to adjust for some of his "lost time" I
start picking her up at eleven on my Sundays rather than nine. I
stipulated that that was a tentative agreement because it's a year and a
half away, but it seems okay. Gives me a chance to go away for the
occasional weekend and not have to come back before the crack of dawn.

So the Christian Witness statement is moot. Whaddya know. Now to
register the girlie for kindergarten and also for the summer school
pre-K introductory session.

Comments

[ohari.livejournal.com]

His Lost Time? It's his fucking idea!
Wait....we get to sleep on Sundays? Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........................

I remember sleep, I used to do that...

[semperfiona]

Whaddya mean "sleep"? Don't you mean, "nap"?

[ohari.livejournal.com]

Nap, or possibly nap, or possibly both.

[lintra.livejournal.com]

I'd still like to hear whatever the church school has to say when/if they call you back about your question.

[semperfiona]

I'm not sure they will. I didn't specifically ask them to follow up with the archdiocese; I wanted to read the document before bothering to go that far with it. If I wasn't going to feel comfortable signing it, I didn't care what the archdiocese thought of my life.

If I do ever get a copy, though, I'll probably post at least selections from it.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

The bus is bad news, anyway. I quit school in the third grade so that I wouldn't have to ride the bus. Little kids get the worst of it - especially if their clothes aren't perfect.

It didn't last long, of course. Something about not being able to drop out until I was sixteen. Still, I never rode the bus again.

Adversity

[leenoox.livejournal.com]

is your friend.

As long as you learn to deal with it properly. And that's actually the entire point.

I don't, actually, have kids of my own yet (as far as I know :-), but I'm really big on the Teachable Moments theory of parenting: kids won't listen to you unless it was there idea. So engineer moments when they'll ask you about the things you want to teach them.

"Kids are jerks" is one of those things. :-)

In any event: "Woo, and likewise hoo!"

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Hurray! She will be in one of the best schools in town, you'll get to sleep late on Sundays, and all shall be well!

From my own experience working through child custody issues, one question pops out at me -- I wonder if he intends to take her to mass on Sunday mornings before 11. Is that possible, and is it OK with you?

Either way, it's an outstanding public school, and Ray's agreed... Hurray!

[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

{snark}

He still thought she'd get a better "morality" education from Catholic school...

Hmm. Back in the day, when I was a boy, we always thought that this was the parents' job. Doesn't Ray remember that? Won't he accept that responsibility for the sake of his little girl's immortal soul? Particularly since her mother is clearly going to hell, and cannot be trusted to do it? Or can't he be bothered?

{/snark}

[semperfiona]

her mother is clearly going to hell

Us dragons *LIKE* fire. ;-)

[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

Well, then, I hope you don't practice Zoroastrianism. Their hell is cold. }:-

Yay!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

That's a good thing!