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I’m still making funny faces. Southern University is sending me through HELL to get my financial aid by simply pouring salt and lemon juice on wounds that haven’t even healed. To recieve my financial aid, because one of my teachers did not allow me to make up my work and gave me an incomplete, I have to obtain a death certificate, a notarized statement of me being related to my grandmother, AND a program. In addition to this, my daughter is asking to go and “see great mo-mo”. I haven’t been to the grave site since the funeral. Now, I’m thinking I should take a little trip to see.

Anyways, since I already have plans for this summer and that money will definitely be a help, I’m getting everything together and mailing it off. I already know my classes will be purged, my financial aid will be delayed, and I’ll have to get overrides for each class which will have to include a statement from EACH teacher informing them that I have been attending. The devil stays busy!

This won’t stop me.

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This is my daughter. She “graduated” from Head Start yesterday and it was a really cute ceremony. Throughout the program, Imari wanted to share with those in attendance that he knows his sister’s name and nickname so he decided to yell it to get her attention.

Iyanna and her classmates sung their ABC’s in Spanish, another song in Spanish, and they song the 12 days of School which I have on video and need to upload. Overall, the ceremony was awesome and it allowed the kids to be proud of their accomplishments. Moreover, it made me feel proud that Iyanna acquired a great deal of knowledge.

However…

Now, I know what you’re thinking, “How could there be a however?” The however comes into play when I read the program.

On the program, it read “Returning to Head Start” and a list of majority of Iyanna’s classmates, including herself, except three students because they were going to Kindergarten. The term “returning” created an abhorrence within me. Now, I knew it didn’t mean that my child had been retained, but that was after the anger subsided. This term simply meant that I have a choice to allow her to remain in Head Start because of her age or allow her to go to Pre-K which is much more structured.

It angers and frustrates me that my daughter has to be with other kids who are younger than her just because she was born in November. It’s a state law that children that are not 5 by September 30th, will have to wait a year. Now, I would never make a stupid decision and allow my daughter to remain in Head Start to learn the SAME thing for another year, but I refuse to allow her to be in a class with three year olds. My niece is 3 and she starts Head Start in August. My daughter will be 5 in November. This troubled and angered me. My mom’s blood was boiling.

After the program, we talked with several teachers and they suggested looking into private schools. My mom insisted that Iyanna was going to attend a private school and I insisted that such was not going to happen because I definitely didn’t have the funds to pay for it. That’s when she offered to pay for it and so did my brother who lives in Michigan. We then went to a private school who informed us of the state law and that it was no getting around it. She can remain in Head Start or go to Pre-K. Kindergarten was not an option.

Iyanna has been accepted into Pre-K but not into the class of the teacher that I preferred. She’s second on a list for a second Pre-K class which is a good thing. However, the school has yet to receive funding for this class and a teacher. Again, I was presented with three options: allow Iyanna to remain in Head Start and when the school received funding they’ll move her, allow her to remain on the list and “patiently” wait, or have her attend another school in her parish. My first option was the latter considering that a bus will ship a child to a different school as long as it’s in the same parish. The nearest school is Crescent Elementary which is in Plaquemine, LA uber far from where I live. However, the parish no longer provides transporation. fuck the what?

But, there’s an alternative: bicycling. Excuse me while I install a seat on the back of my cruiser with whitewalls to travel the distance below ↓

→ More? (VERY long–as long as that route!)

There’s no way around getting her into kindergarden this year. Nevertheless, I plan on getting her tested for gifted/talented as I was. I believe she is gifted and I believe she is talented. I do not believe that it’s beneficial for her to remain in Head Start with three year olds. That’s just NOT happening.

I really hate the way all of this is set-up. However, many teachers do not agree with me.

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