There was an open house yesterday at the school that Junegee will be attending starting next Wednesday. He’s really excited about going to school (it is a public preschool program), and didn’t want to leave the open house yesterday.
Jiyeon and I are cautiously optimistic about how this will go. The program that he’s in is a mix of special needs (across the spectrum) and “normal” kids. The one thing that we’re not sure of is if any of the other kids have physical disabilities similar to Junegee, and it remains to be seen both if this will be the case, and either way, how included he’ll feel with the rest of the class given his condition and abilities.
In a rather unfortunately ironic twist, all the kids in the class were given a tote bag and assigned a cubby in the classroom, and as part of this, each kid was assigned a symbol that presumably corresponded to the first letter of the kid’s first name. So, what was Junegee’s? A jump rope, something that he’ll not be able to use anytime in the forseeable future.
