To School or Not to School

It's Kindergarten Roundup!  And I have a future kindergartener who may or may not need rounding up.

This is the week to go down to the school and fill out the stack of papers to enroll Reuben for the fall.

But do I do it?

I don't know.

I keep going back and forth about the pros and cons.  So I'm going to lay them out here to clear my brain.  (But I don't have a lot of time.  I've got a date with My Man to do lesson ten in our language learning.)

Send the Rube to Kindergarten
1. That whole socialization thing that everyone and their mother-in-law is so worried about.
2. I'm a recovering Anemic and am so tired and maybe I'll be this tired always.
3. I'm used to this whole send-your-kid-away-all-day-and-let-someone-else-educate-him and I like it.
4. It's what everyone else is doing.
5. A lot of Rube's friends would be in his class and he'd love being with them, including his future wife, Kelsey, with whom he plays several times a week.

Keep the Rube at Home
1. He doesn't want to go to school.  Which surprised me.  We don't talk negatively about school.  Peter goes to school.  Rube is super independent, but also easily scared.  Like, everyday he is scared of something.  So maybe that has something to do with it.
2. We quite possibly could be moving to The Place in the middle of the next school year.  This would just mess up switching to homeschool midyear and midcurriculum.
3. We love LOVE the flexibility in our lives that homeschooling gives us.
4. Homeschooling is awesome.
5. And that whole socialization thing.  I want him to be socialized by me, not his peers.  Unlike Peter, I think Rube will be easily influenced to follow the wrong crowd.  He shows tendencies to be dishonest and to want to fit in.  I want to build up his moral backbone a bit, no, a lot more.

Okay, that's it for tonight.  Do talk amongst yourselves and send me any thoughts, pro or con.  My brain is only functioning at a third of it's power due to the lack of hemoglobin circulating in my veins.

And I haven't mentioned it, but we've been doing No Sugar March because I'm tired of Reuben always wanting candy and desserts.  All day, everyday sugar, sugar, sugar.  But, I uh, really needed some chocolate tonight, you know, so I snuck out to the gas station on my way to the PTO meeting and bought a pack of M&Ms and now I'm going to go eat them.

And I'm not really digging this blog layout either.  It's so green.  I do like that it's wider and the pictures are larger.  Prepare for another change.