This evening I attended an information session given by an actual Kindergarten teacher about preparing for Kindergarten. In some ways I wish I hadn't gone. Instead of calming my concerns (and I really didn't have any before attending), I discovered that there were whole categories of things I hadn't thought to worry about.
For the first time, I realized what a difference there is between cocoon of preschool and the big bad world of public school. In public school the teachers are not paid to love and care for my child; although if I am lucky they will do both. They have serious academic goals, laid out by the state of California, to achieve. And as the speaker said, they don't have time to wipe noses.
So right now, as you might guess, I am worried that Megan's goopy nose - mercifully absent this summer - will return and her teachers will grow to resent her and her ever present mucus. And without meaning to, they will be unkind and Megan will learn to hate school.
Or worse, her teachers won't want to provide reminders to help Megan realize that she needs to use the bathroom so that she doesn't have an accident. And then she will become the pee girl and the other kids will make fun of her.
And don't get me started on the cafeteria. It hadn't sunk in until tonight that she would be eating lunch in the cafeteria. I'm an adult and I still can't manage a cafeteria. I hate to think of her having to deal with one by herself.
Intellectually, I know it will be fine. But still, I'll be glad when we are into the school year and I know for sure that it is actually fine.
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