Schooling

One of the initiating events that compelled me to start this blog was Alex’s reaction to us possibly moving to Romania.  He tends to be a bit cautious by nature (takes after his dad in that way) and perhaps a bit reticent about change.  Again, kind of like daddy.  So, when I told him we were likely to be moving he didn’t take it too well.

While I figure much of the desire to not go came from a fear of the unknown, he did fairly strongly express his desire to not move out of his school.  He’s currently at School Within School at Gooding here in DC.  It’s definitely a great school and one that he apparently loves more than we thought.  I kind of expected a bit of push back from him around this whole process, but the amount of push back surprised even me.  He was glum and grouchy for the next couple of days.  I’m sure he was worrying about the move and leaving his school.

What I didn’t realize is that Feli was worrying about schooling too.  Her issue more comes from bureaucratic issues that her friends have hit.  She was a bit concerned that we’d have issues getting them into classes there.

Turns out we may have an answer to the combined set of issues.  Today Feli told me she wants to home school the kids the first year we are there.  It’ll give us a more gradual transition into life there and it’ll likely save us a few thousand dollars/euro because we won’t have to pay for international private school immediately.  It will also give us a bit more flexibility to travel as we can either take the kids with us or leave them with family during the week.

Whether we do it or not is still up in the air, but at least we have an option.  And when offered that option, Alex seemed interested and much happier.  Win/win!