If you answered, "YES!" then you are correct. Courtney has been so excited about kindergarten registration for the past few months and couldn't wait. Today was the first day of registration so we gathered up her birth certificate, immunization record and doctor's form and headed to the elementary school. We walked in and the secretary gave us some forms for me to fill out. Courtney talked and talked to teh secretaries about how excited she is to start kindergarten and how her birthday is on the second day of school so she is pretty special. She told them that she has been getting ready for school by going to preschool, which she loves, and practicing all her letters and numbers.
They then asked one of the kindergarten teachers (Mrs. Rindlinsbacher) to take Courtney for some testing. This is when it all fell apart!
See, Courtney has made the decision that she HAS TO HAVE Mrs. Clayton (Ethan's kindergarten teacher) for her kindergarten teacher. And no one else is good enough! So when the other teacher came around the corner to test Courtney, Courtney began screaming, clinging to me and telling the other teacher that she wasn't the "right teacher for me!" I finally got her calmed down and the secretary said that testing wasn't a big deal because Courtney is obviously intelligent by the way she was speaking to them earlier. So I took Courtney to some chairs and she CLUNG to me while I attempted to fill out all her paperwork.
Five minutes later, Mrs. Rindlinsbacher tried to say hello to Courtney and make her feel better...BIG MISTAKE. Courtney, once again, started screaming and crying. Mrs. Rindlinsbacher quickly backed up and I felt horrible!
Then...from around the corner came Mrs. Clayton. She saw us and came over to say hello and asked if Courtney had been tested. Courtney said, "No, because you weren't here." So Mrs. Clayton asked if she could test Courtney and Courtney jumped right up, took her hand and said, "Let's go!" They skipped off to testing and left everyone (including the other teacher and the secretaries) with their jaws dropped.
They came back about 10 minutes later laughing and Courtney was just as happy as could be. Mrs. Clayton told me that she did really well on the testing and said that Courtney is a girl who knows what she wants. She laughed and said she was really flattered that she was the only one who would do. Hopefully she'll have some input on placement.
Now, we can't request kindergarten teachers but I think the secretary added a note to Courtney's registration form "strongly suggesting" that she be assigned to Mrs. Clayton's class. I certainly hope it happens because it will make the transition to kindergarten so much easier!
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