Well, Friday morning Jim got a call from Hodge, letting us know that the school district denied Hodge ALL their transfer-requests (besides 5th graders). The Friday before school was gonna begin, we learned our kids would be attending a different school altogether, closer to our rent-house. Jim talked to our principal, who doesn't want to let our advanced kids slip outta her hands! But nothing can really be done. She said that in a few weeks she may have been able to get the kids transfered back, but we wouldn't want to do that in the middle of a semester.
Also, when Jim went to the school district's transportation (school bus) office he received more bad news. If we ever did get the kids switched back to Hodge, the school buses would no longer be a part of driving the kids to their after-school babysitter, Wendy. We've always been honest that wasn't our neighborhood the kids were being bussed to, but now it seems to actually matter that it's not our residence. So, even if we got the kids back going to Hodge, we still wouldn't be able to keep the same after-school babysitter. Not having to change babysitters was one of the reasons we didn't want the kids to change school's last September. Wendy is Elaine's girl scout leader, so that was very convenient.
The worse news Jim got from the transportation office is a little more ridiculous. The kids' new elementary is Robert E. Lee elementary. The school's attendance zone is all less than 2 miles out from the school in any given direction. With that said, they only have to provide buses to students who live more than 2 miles from the school. Think about it! No school buses AT ALL provide service to Lee elementary. All their students are either picked up by parents or go on a kindercare bus (etc.). With having only the weekend to plan, we've had to scramble together a plan for how to get the kids picked up from school and supervised until Jimmy can get home. Today my co-worker, Emily, picked up the kids.
My goal is to get the kids enrolled in the 'extended school day' program that is held at each Elementary school in Denton county. If there is space for both kids in the program, the kids would just stay at their school having homework time, activities and sports time until Jim had to pick them up at 6pm. It sounds like they wouldn't be as shuffled around, if I can get this set up tomorrow when I'm off from work. I"m praying they have room to take two more kids in the program. I'm also praying that there aren't huge late-registration fees.... but we couldn't have planned ahead since we thought the kids would be attending a different school this year.
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