Jonathan is going to Line Creek Elementary next year, which is part of our public Park Hill School District here in KC. We sent Caleb there for Kindergarten for 3 main reasons: free speech, free tuition, and full day Kindergarten. We really liked it! So when it came time to decide to send all 4 of our kids to our private school this year, our first thought was how to avoid the $1,100 monthly tuition payment. Jonathan was our first thought. Attend Line Creek like Caleb. We save $400 a month, he will qualify for free speech to I think, attend full day Kindergarten instead of half day three days a week, and the ability to ride the bus sometimes! Well, I forgot about another huge benefit we loved about Park Hill....
The PTA moms run and operate a free clothing center for the entire district. They basically take donations for clothes throughout the year, organize them by gender and size and then fill a huge house with racks of clothes. It is open a few months out of the year for students to get some free school clothes. Today was the back to school day so Jonathan and I went. It was BUSY! We stood in a long line outside in (100 degree weather), but they offered free water bottles while we waited. Then we got a list of the items we could get - 20 tops, 20 bottoms, 14 Misc items (belts, sports stuff, uniforms, hats, bags, purses, etc), 6 sweat shirts/jackets, 2 pairs of shoes, 1 winter coat, 2 packages of new socks & underwear, and some free books. The crazy thing is this is per semester. We got about 2/3 of this list and filled 3 HUGE bags. Most of our clothes are name brand (Children's Place, Nike, GAP) and some look brand new. It is wonderful!! Jonathan was so excited to pick his stuff out and try everything on when we got home. He often gets hand me downs from Joshua and Caleb and really values "new" clothes, especially clothes he picked. We plan on donating there this school year since we have enjoyed it twice now. We will probably go again in the Spring too. Most of our loot is pictured here...
The PTA moms run and operate a free clothing center for the entire district. They basically take donations for clothes throughout the year, organize them by gender and size and then fill a huge house with racks of clothes. It is open a few months out of the year for students to get some free school clothes. Today was the back to school day so Jonathan and I went. It was BUSY! We stood in a long line outside in (100 degree weather), but they offered free water bottles while we waited. Then we got a list of the items we could get - 20 tops, 20 bottoms, 14 Misc items (belts, sports stuff, uniforms, hats, bags, purses, etc), 6 sweat shirts/jackets, 2 pairs of shoes, 1 winter coat, 2 packages of new socks & underwear, and some free books. The crazy thing is this is per semester. We got about 2/3 of this list and filled 3 HUGE bags. Most of our clothes are name brand (Children's Place, Nike, GAP) and some look brand new. It is wonderful!! Jonathan was so excited to pick his stuff out and try everything on when we got home. He often gets hand me downs from Joshua and Caleb and really values "new" clothes, especially clothes he picked. We plan on donating there this school year since we have enjoyed it twice now. We will probably go again in the Spring too. Most of our loot is pictured here...
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