School is Back

Tomorrow Jacob and Nalin start back to school. Aleena starts on Friday, but we have an appointment tomorrow morning to meet her teacher.

We actually briefly met Aleena's teacher this morning. After taking Aleena to the clinic to get a TB test, we walked over to ISB. Today they posted the class lists; the first opportunity to learn the identity of your child's teacher for the year. We found Jacob and Nalin's classes, but there was no list for the pre-k. There are two pre-k classes, and a few people recommended a certain teacher, so I had requested that teacher.

Aleena and I walked over to the pre-k quad and walked into one of the rooms. Ms. Pattie, one of the teachers was there. I asked her about finding out which class Aleena would be in, and it turns out its hers. She is the one that we requested. Ms. Pattie took Aleena by the hand and gave her a very brief tour of the room. Aleena had a big smile the entire time. It was pretty cute.

When assigning students to classes, ISB does not carry over classes from the year before. This means that each year, you have a lot of new classmates. Both Jacob and Nalin had three or four people in their class from last year, the rest were from different classes. I'm sure that there is some educational or sociological philosophy underpinning this policy.