curb drop-off
June 5, 2009
One of the things the school strongly encourages during 1st grade is to get the kids independent enough that they don’t need their parents to walk them into the classroom. So, we’ve had to set up programs and practice to get to that point. We got there pretty early in the year actually.
By 2nd grade, the parents are strongly encouraged to not even walk into the school building but to drop the kids off at the door. So, my son’s teacher started to warn me about this a couple of months ago, that we should start working toward that. I basically dismissed it, and told her so. I said “when he’s ready, he’ll let us know, in the meantime, i’m more concerned with his emotional well-being, and if he feels more confident walking into the school with his mom at his side, then so be it”. Well lo and behold, without us even bringing it up with him, he suddenly decides that not only does he not need me to walk into the school, but he wants me to do a curbside drop-off. He saw how much fun one of his 1st grade friends had doing this and from that moment on, he made his decision. Of course, now I’m trying to discourage the curbside drop-off and start smaller, like let me at least walk you to the door so I’m sure you made it in the building.
Fortunately, his teaching assistant was able to meet him at the curb and walk him in. There have been days when he has run out of the building and back to the car, usually when he just really doesn’t want to go to school. So, we’ll see how this all pans out.
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