Mama Bear

My sister-in-law recently used the term Mama Bear when describing an effort that she successfully made on behalf of her son in regards to a school situation. So I guess I've already had my 1st Mama Bear school moment.

When Kai's school started we learned that he was in a class that they would allow 36 kids in the class. The other morning Kindergarten class had 24 kids. What in the world? Turns out the other class had a smaller classroom so they can physically fit that many desks. 24 sounds a lot better to me than 36. So.....

I talked to the school to see if there might be a chance of getting him switched in to the smaller class. They were nice but said sorry that the class was full. So I asked if we could get on some kind of wait list in case something changes. They told me there was so such list but I could come in and fill out an administrator request for contact form. So I did.

The afternoon of the 1st day of school I got a call from an administrator who said that 2 kids in the class hadn't shown up for the 1st day. They needed to give those kids 2 more days to see if they would show up and then they would call me back. They didn't call back so I called them again. In every conversation I tried to be nice and understanding and patient but still persistent. I watched my parents do this most of my life when people would tell them that something wasn't possible with my sister. Whitney and I ended up getting to go to school together for the 1st time ever when I was a Senior in High School because my parents used this technique is helping get a program started that they were told wouldn't be possible.

So the 4th day of school Kai started the new class. This teacher only teaches morning so she has 24 kids and parents to think about- the other teacher taught afternoon as well so she has about 60/ 70+ kids and parents to think about. This teacher has taught kindergarten before- the other hadn't. This class has 3 boys in it that go to our Church which is cool. This class brings in 4 special needs kids for some inclusion for certain subjects which we think is awesome- Kai will be a great kid to be with them since he already has a loving heart for "whitney friends". Plus the old teacher said "me and her" twice at the parent orientation night.......I'm thinking she was just really nervous...right?

Kai liked his old class and his old teacher and it would have been fine- he likes his new class and his new teacher and we just feel like it will be even better. He did the switch without issue and now thinks it is cool that he knows kids in both classes. All in all we feel really good about it and are glad we made the extra effort.