Exhaling.

[rivka]

Just got a callback from the nursery school director. Our conversation started out like this:

Rivka: We were very surprised to get your letter. I guess we've had a terrible misunderstanding, because we thought that Alex was already in the class.
Director: (instantly.) Well, she is.

It turns out that they're trying to standardize their application process, and that what should have happened is that we should have gotten that letter as soon as we put in our application. Instead they sent out a whole batch, late in the year. (Director: "I should make some other calls, so people don't have heart attacks.")

So we're set. Alex will be starting in May and attending either three or four full days per week, depending on whether or not Michael gets a job that allows him to work a compressed/flextime schedule. The director assures me that it's a "great" and "really cute" class.

Whew. I wish I'd gotten through to her last week; it would have saved us some worry.

Comments

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Yay and phew! Here's hoping the other nerve-wracking thing goes as well!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Excellent! That's great to hear; it's also good that you may have spared those other people heart attacks, as a side effect.

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a relief! I'm sorry you couldn't find out earlier but at least everything is okay now.

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that it was just a misunderstanding. It sounds like they would have been better off not sending out the letters late so they would avoid scaring people.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh hurray! I'm sorry my pessimism may have added to your worries.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

whew! excellent!

[boxofdelights]

What a relief!

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I suspected it might be something like that--I'm glad it was!

-J

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thanks be!

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

She sounds like a great person to work with, though - embarassed by the process and thinking of other people who might be in your situation. Congrats on the nursery place!

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness it turned out alright in the end!

But how incredibly foolish of them to have sent out that letter after the fact. I hope that doesn't bode ill for their operations, in general.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

But how incredibly foolish of them to have sent out that letter after the fact. I hope that doesn't bode ill for their operations, in general.

I don't think so. They've been running this school out of the same space, using the same methods and basic curriculum, for 30 years. (Ordinarily that would raise my eyebrows, but I actually think it's probably a good thing for a nursery school.) They seem to have their educational act together.

I think, from what she said, that they're finding that their old-fashioned school is now trying to operate in a modern system in which there's actually an "admissions process" for preschools (so that, for example, many of the kids who apply have applied to a lot of other schools and might get sent elsewhere even if there's room for them at this school), and they're trying to figure out how to make it work.