I'm sick of this 'lessons will be learned' crap because they rarely are. As for this old bastard I would give her the same on the level the kids would've suffered (ie one slap for them = a cricket bat in the face for her).
I have a three year old, who's at pre-school and very happy and socialised and a pain in the arse at times like other kiddies, but as soon as she turned two her health visitor just clean forgot about her. She's hardly been to a doctor in her life so for a whole year there was absoloutely no monitoring of her or me at all. Worrying. If I hadn't chosen preschool for her, it might still be the same.
Homeschooling on the whole makes me feel dead queasy, can't help it. I find it more of a lifestyle choice on the parents' part than anything else and really, unless the kids got serious problems, dead unfair. There's this notion that schools stifle imagination etc and perhaps they do in a way but that's up to the parents/carers to communicate and encourage their kids in other ways.
She loves all these great new friends she's got, and already she's learned how to fall out with someone, feel regretful about it then make up again.
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