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1. I have id'd the following - Media, Springfield, Haverstown, Yardley, Bensalem and Fox Chase. I am budgeting $1300 for an apt and 200 for utilities, assuming no roaches/mice etc in apt and something nice to live. Reasonable?
2. Any private/public schools in these areas that can take my 5 year kid for FULL DAY? I heard that public schools are 2 hour Kingergarten. We need a full day - NOT DAY CARE - but like 9 to 3 school. Possible at all?
3. Today this forum says there is not a single area in and around Philly suburbs where you can walk to a park with kid or use bicycle. Is this area that bad all over the place?
Can someone please answer these questions before I start driving from midwet in the first week of October? Please?
#2 - Kindergarten - I've never heard of 2-hour kindergarten. I have heard of half-day kindergarten.
Media is a great little town. The others are pretty much as well.
Why are you asking in such a begging manner? Did you post this before and get ignored?
Half day Kinder-Garten = 9 am to 11 am or 2 pm to 4 pm. Is that your definition of half day? Then great. It is half day!
In a city and suburbs of 1.5 million people I cannot find a single private or public school (not day care) for my 5 year kid to have 8 am to 3 pm KG school. Great. and it is just wonderful. I am relocating to this place. I am sure I am going down the drain. WTF it matters? I am just another bloody idiot who would be shot in the downtown with a bullet in skull when I commute on a daily basis and I will disappear like another stinking fart into thin air. It matters absolute nothing. Just a %@#$%@# My fate is that way. Nobody is to be blamed.
The city has about 1.5 million, the region is around 4 or 5 million.
Clearly you already have preconceived notions that you are too good for this region, which, if I may venture a guess, has nothing to do with your kindergarten search.
Most kindergartens I know are full day. I went to half-day, about 25 years ago, which was from like 9 to 1 or something like that.
The city has about 1.5 million, the region is around 4 or 5 million.
Clearly you already have preconceived notions that you are too good for this region, which, if I may venture a guess, has nothing to do with your kindergarten search.
Most kindergartens I know are full day. I went to half-day, about 25 years ago, which was from like 9 to 1 or something like that.
Where are you relocating from?
I am relocating from Midwest - Milwaukee, WI. I lived in MD before and disliked it first but when I was beginning to like it and had a house I lost job and had to sell house and move. %$@#^%#
Regarding the preconceived notions that I am too good for the region, may I add that I have no other option? :-( I am losing my job here and have a job offer from Philly downtown and the job offer is from Fed Govt. The other local offer is matching salary with fed but the offer is from county govt which people say can be VERY unstable (layoffs looming around with the whims and fancies of the board of directors or whatever). Wish I had a gun to shoot myself in the head (I shot myself in the foot by applying and accepting the fed job). I hate to move now but there is really no other option.
Philadelphia public schools (which would be in Fox Chase - a decent area of the city and one you listed as a possibility) have full day kindergarten.
One thing that sets Philadelphia public school kindergartens apart is that every kindergarten class in every School District of Philadelphia elementary school is full-day kindergarten. While Governor Edward G. Rendell has proposed instituting full-day kindergarten throughout Pennsylvania as one of his education initiatives, Philadelphia's public schools already provide this important service.
Now, get a damm attitude adjustment. This is a great city.
RE: Springfield area, Media area or Havertown: for full day kindergarten check out the Catholic elementary schools...some of them have full day kindergarten. I know that St. Kevin School in Springfield does.
Not too sure about Mary Magdalene in Media. Annuniciation School & St. Denis School are in Havertown. Check them out - you will find full day kindergarten
Philadelphia public schools (which would be in Fox Chase - a decent area of the city and one you listed as a possibility) have full day kindergarten.
One thing that sets Philadelphia public school kindergartens apart is that every kindergarten class in every School District of Philadelphia elementary school is full-day kindergarten. While Governor Edward G. Rendell has proposed instituting full-day kindergarten throughout Pennsylvania as one of his education initiatives, Philadelphia's public schools already provide this important service.
Now, get a damm attitude adjustment. This is a great city.
LOL. That is a great statement about attitude adjustment. Hit me where it is most needed. Thanks :-)
LOL. That is a great statement about attitude adjustment. Hit me where it is most needed. Thanks :-)
Good. You may just be surprised at how much you like it here. Keep your mind open.
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