Starting Nursery School
This morning my wife and I visited the school where my daughter will be starting a nursery class in September. It was strongly reminicent of visiting the hospital and looking around the delivery ward. Was it really four years ago?
My daughter is starting uncommonly early at school, in fact she starts two days before her 4th birthday. This comes from having a September birthday which will make her just about the oldest in her class. She has a friend whose birthday is two weeks before who will be in the class above. This confers great advantages on her all the way through school. She will have a full year in nursery, and before three full years at lower primary school. Time it wrong and you can be left with two and a half years.
Of course, this levels out by the time she is eighteen, but being the eldest at that age gives out an even better gift. She will be legally allowed to drink before any of her peers. She will also be able to learn to drive first. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I’ve got twelve years before I have to start worrying.
To compensate, I’ve gone back to school myself. I’m starting an “Open University”:http://www.open.ac.uk/ course in November. About time I got some proper qualifications to go with all this “experience”.
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