I wanted to talk about this for a while now. What I wanted to say, I posted in one of my playgroup message boards so I will just copy and paste it here. Its a Rant...so sorry in advance.


I am getting really frustrated with TN schools. I am wanting to get Julianna into a school setting for next year. I want her to go to preschool at a school 5 days a week so Kindergarten will not be so shocking to her. BUT I am not low income, she has no disabilities or she is not an at-risk child so she can not go to Preschool. I think that is a bunch of crap and it pisses me off to no end. Why should I have to pay for my child's early education? Doesn't she deserve to be taught at a school like other kids who will more than likely be in her kindergarten class the following year? I emailed the Pre-K teacher at Smyrna Primary where it said they were a Title I school. This means that kids can be excepted into the program no matter what, but the lower income and at risk kids are enrolled first. The teacher informed me that they will only be excepting children that are excepted into the free and reduce lunch program.
My family in Ohio can't believe that TN does not cater to every child for preschool. Ohio has an open preschool program for every child.
This whole Pre-K program in TN is probably one of the reasons that TN is low in the rating for excellent schools. Heck I even looked at Lancaster Christian School....just to see what their price was for a 5 days preschool...$153 a week..with adding in a $100 registration fee, $30 supply fee and a $60 yearly book fee.


So all of you that are not in TN are very lucky for your great school system. With the way people are handling this whole crappy economy situation, the middle class is getting to become the lower class and the lower class are becoming the poor.