She Went Behind Her Husband’s Back And Decided Not To Enroll Her Daughter In A School For Gifted Children Because The Commute Would Be Two Hours Every Day
This woman and her husband have three children together– two daughters named Michelle and Juliet, who are 7 and 6-years-old, respectively, and a son, Leo, who is 2.
Now, Juliet is currently in kindergarten, and Michelle is in first grade. And both girls attend their local public school.
But Juliet is apparently very intellectually gifted. In fact, the little girl entered kindergarten already reading chapter books and was able to successfully do math at a second-grade level.
While Juliet is excelling academically, though, her daughter does still struggle socially at her current school. And according to her, this is due to a few different reasons.
First of all, Juliet cannot understand that other children’s brains just don’t function like hers. So, the little girl often gets frustrated when other people take longer to problem-solve or learn new things.
On top of that, her daughter is just a massive bookworm who would much rather spend her recess time reading instead of playing with other children.
“Then, Juliet gets upset that she can’t talk about her books with them,” she added.
That’s why she was recently asked to attend a meeting at Juliet’s school with her daughter’s teacher, principal, and superintendent. During this discussion, they wound up telling her that they just don’t have the appropriate resources to support Juliet’s intellectual abilities at any public school in the district.
However, the school staff did tell her that, two towns over, there was a school specifically meant for gifted students in grades one through 10. As for grades 11 and 12, there was a special building at a local community college where gifted students took college courses and gained college credit while still in high school.
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She learned that her daughter would have to be tested in order to get into the gifted school. But, the public school was happy to provide that testing to Juliet.
While the entire idea sounded wonderful, though, she knows that the gifted school is about 30 minutes away from her daughter’s current school.
Thankfully, it does start and end 45 minutes later– which would allow her to pick up both Juliet and Michelle from school on time.
“But it would eat up at least two extra hours of my day, and I don’t have that kind of time for school drop-off and pick-up,” she explained.
On top of that, she also admitted that she just doesn’t have enough patience to deal with her 2-year-old in the car every day for two hours.
And since her husband works in the opposite direction of the gifted school, he won’t be able to drop off or pick up Juliet, either.
Now, she could ask her father-in-law to help out– since he already drives the kids for her sometimes. But she also doesn’t want to ask her father-in-law to commit to two hours of driving each day.
While she is having trouble mulling over the downsides, though, her husband is the complete opposite. He believes that she should be willing to make that commute for their daughter– and keeps insisting that she has plenty of time because she is a stay-at-home mom.
During this conversation, she did try to bring up the fact that their 2-year-old would be in the car for a long time every day.
But, her husband pointed out how they could just get her in-laws to babysit during that time.
Regardless of that, though, she still just doesn’t think it’s worth it for the two-hour commute.
“So I went through with enrolling her in our local public school for next year,” she revealed.
And now, her husband is utterly furious with her. He has even since accused her of ignoring Juliet’s academic and social needs.
So, she has been left wondering whether not enrolling her daughter in the gifted school because of the commute was the wrong thing to do.
Do you think it’s in Juliet’s best interest to attend the gifted school? Why do you think she went behind her husband’s back and enrolled her daughter in public school again? If you were in her shoes, what would you have done?
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