School Starts Sept. 1st...Are You Ready???

Ok, I did a post here, about the paperwork I had to fill out for Serena to be registered for Kindergarten...very lengthy, but OK, no biggie? right?

I get this paperwork in the mail the other day, in regards to her starting school:

Early Start is: 8:10-12:57 (ok weird times, huh?? Why can't they go from 8-1??? I don' t get it...)

Late Start is: 9:10-1:57 (again, these weird as ass times, I don't get it!!!)

They all take lunch from 11:30-12:13 (again weird ass times, why can't they go from 11:30-12:15?)

They get out at 11:55 on a Minimum Day schedule, (again weird ass times, am I missing something here?)

Grades 1, 2 and 3 is: 8:10-1:57 ( so I see she will have weird ass times ahead, too...)
Grade 4 and 5 is: 8:10-2:55 (need I say more? about weird ass times??)

Every Thursday 1:57 Early Dismissal for 1st thru 5th grade

Totally. Weird. Ass. Times. This should have been the name of this post, huh?

So, it gets a little more weird, if the times are not weird enough...

I get another paper, a Dear Parents of Incoming Kindergartners...Welcome to our school and blah, blah, blah. This year we will have extended, staggered day programs (just to mess with you parents of new students, I think!)

School starts Sept. 1st. The schedule for Sept. 1-Sept. 3: all kindergarten students will attend school from 8:10 until 11:55.

Sept. 7th -Sept 24th: All kindergarten students will attend school from 8:10 until 12:57. During this period of time, there will be one afternoon that your child will stay from 1:00 to 1:57 for assessment. Your child's teacher will schedule this with you at the beginning of school.

Sept. 23rd - Parents will be notified which staggered schedule their child will be attending.

Sept. 27th - Staggered Day Schedule Begins.

Weird Ass Times!~

Then they want to invite me to the Kindergarten Orientation with your child on the first day of school...(are you kidding me???) They want me to get there at 8:10 and stay until 8:45 in my kid's classroom...(ummm what for??) to give me the opportunity to meet the teacher, experience part of the program, ask questions, and meet other parents (I don't have time for this kind of crap, is that bad?? don't judge, but I just don't have the time...I work too, even if it is from home, I babysit...I have to go to work just like other parents). Then, get this, following the orientation they are having a friggin' small reception (really???) in the courtyard for parents from 8:45 to 9:15....and it says, and I quote, "If you can't attend, please send someone else in your place such as your child's caretaker or grandparents." WTF is that????? Someone really needs to either slap me so I can get with the program or I guess I need to switch schools already!!!!!

Do you guys have this much "stuff" when starting Kindergarten??? Please share your story with me, so I don't feel so alone!

As for Kylie, she is 15 and will be a Sophomore, easy peasy with her. I fill out the Emergency Card and send her with a check for a PE Lock and PE clothes and call it good...I don't even have to take her to her "Sophomore Pick-Up" where they go and get their schedule and locks and order PE clothes, her friend, Randi (whom I totally adore!) will be taking her, so there!

Update on Enrolling Serena

Ok, so I took all those papers and the dentist one and her shot records and our water bill and TV bill (they want proof of residency...) and when I got there the lady behind the counter asked for Serena's birth certificate! I had completely forgotten it when I was going over all the paperwork.

She says to me, "Well, I can't accept her paperwork without her birth certificate.."

I tell her, "No problem, I will go home and get it."

She looks at me and then at Brandon who is climbing around the stroller at this point and is backwards standing up laughing and carrying on like a normal 2 yr old does, and says "Well, you can come back another day if you want...There was another lady with 2 kids too and she wanted to come back another day."

I was floored to say the least! Who did this bitch think she was? Telling me to come back another day because I have 2 kids? One sitting in the chair reading a book and the other climbing out of the stroller????? I told her again I would go home and get the birth cert and be back in about 20 minutes.....OH THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE!!!!! I really wanted to rip into her....but I didn't I kept my composure and left and went home to get her birth certificate.

I figure I better be cool until at least the first day of school or after before I go bonkers on the lady in the office. I think she was just the secretary or maybe the health nurse, I dunno who she was but she sure had nerve talking to me the way she did!

Enrolling a kid in Kindergarten is no easy task!

I am enrolling Serena into Kindergarten for the Fall! I am so excited for her and nervous at the same time. So, I call the district to see what school she will be going to and I get the name and call them to find out about registration. They tell me I can download the pages from the Internet....I was like ummm I don't have a printer....so they tell me I can come down the week of March 1st thru the 5th to get the paperwork and then fill it out and return it the following week, this week March 8th thru the 12th.....I go and pick up the paperwork, let me tell you...it is a 15 page packet, I kid you not!!!! only 5 of them are information pages and the rest you fill out.

The first form is a Student Enrollment Form, they as you the usual stuff, students name, address and parents names and where they work....blah, blah blah

This page is from the Permanent Health History paper....they are seriously asking about when she was born?! They want birth height and weight and type of delivery....ok since when does this have any bearing on enrolling for school???? NONE WHAT SO EVER, if you ask me!

This is from the Oral Health Assessment Form, which is new to me. Apparently you have to take your kid to the dentist and they have to fill this one out.....one of the informational letters I got in my wonderful packet was this..."Dental decay is the most chronic childhood disease, more common than both asthma and obesity, affecting nearly two-thirds of California's children by the time they reach third grade. Remember your child is not healthy and ready for school if he or she has poor dental health." Man times have really changed!

This was the most decent of them all, the immunizations they need, or rather are required for school entry....Serena is going to need some shots to get current according to this.

Another paper I received was the Overflow Disclaimer Letter, which lets you know that students new to the area will be placed at their neighborhood schools on a space available basis. Wonderful, now she might not even go here???

Then there is the Residence Verification Form, to be sure you are living where you say you are.

Ethnic/Language Group Designation Form and the Home Language Survey.

Kindergarten Student Information Form, which is to asses how much your kid knows.

oh and then need a Report of Health Examination for School Entry which is to be filled out by the pediatrician or general practitioner...

UUFDA! I have signed my name so much for all these papers I feel like I am buying a new car!

But at least my baby will be starting school in September....now I just have to prepare her for it, that I am going to leave her there for ummm 4 hours....the kid is so attached to me it is not even funny. She goes everywhere with me and if I do leave her home, when I get back she is telling me she was looking for me...wish me luck! or better yet say a prayer, we are going to need them!