Yochein

After much thought we decided to take Calista out of her Japanese school and enroll her into kindergarten on base.  When we originally signed her up for Japanese school we considered keeping her in another year and then enrolling her in 1st grade on base.  We decided to switch now instead.  She isn't really getting an education at the yochein and I'm not concerned about her missing out on kindergarten because I know I can teach her the letters and numbers at home.  The problem is she needs to go to speech therapy and that is definitely not something the Japanese school is going to teach her.  She also wants to switch schools.  While she likes her teacher and her class and the other kids.  She really has no idea what is going on all day.  She just sits there not understanding what is going on until someone helps her.  I couldn't imagine what that would be like every day all day.  She also doesn't like the school lunch.  The school makes them lunch four days a week and they make her eat it.  She doesn't like it and they sit there and try to make her eat it, to the point of daily tears.  I've talked to other parents and it is pretty normal practice for Japanese kids.  They have to eat their lunch at school and if they try not to the teachers will make them.  Beatrix likes the school lunches and doesn't have any problems with it.  Beatrix will continue to go the the Japanese school.

Below are a couple of pictures and videos of the girls with their classes.