Hallie's Parent Teachers Conference and the Kindergarten Decision

Wed after picking Hallie up at dance the girls and I headed to parent teacher conference. I really didn't know what to expect having never been to one. When we got there the girls were happy to play in the play area while the teacher and I visited. At the first of the year Hallie's preschool teachers had tested her and the end of Feb tested her again on the same curriculum. The teacher had together a sheet to show the testing results. Coming in Hallie was already ahead of most of those in her class. And seeing the improvements she had made made me even that much more comfortable with the decision we have made to send her to kindergarten a year early. Back in November Hallie preschool teachers approached us and asked if we had considered trying to get her into kindergarten a year early saying that she would "be bored" if we were to put her in preschool again the following year. After a lot of discussion Matt and I decided to talk to Hallie and look into it. Hallie has wanted to go to kindergarten for a year now and at the beginning of the year when they did a questionnaire and one of the questions asked what you hope to accomplish this year and she said go to kindergarten so we already knew what she would say. So we decided to look further into it and upon doing so found that the school district made no exceptions they felt it was better for a child to come into kindergarten and be moved to 1st grade than to put them in kindergarten early. Matt and I didn't agree with this. We felt like that could be really overwhelming going from preschool 2 days a week for 2 hours to 1st grade which is M-F and multiple hours a day. So after deciding that we started looking into private schools. After more discussion, multiple opinion, and a lot of prayer we decided we would put her in private school to get her through kindergarten in the hopes that we would be able to move into another school district before she gets further in her education. I don't know if you ever know as a parent that you made the right decision but we are really excited to see how this adventure goes. Any ways back to the story...her teacher could say nothing but good. She said she is a "teacher's dream" and that she would likely be the "child driving the kindergarten class." She also said she is very driven, strong willed, kind, loving, and a perfectionist. None of which I am surprised by she is a lot like her mom. It is hard to explain how proud we are of her and the little girl she is and is becoming and how much we love her. This is one of her chalk drawings she has been working on. She is really into rainbows and all the colors right now.