Where to send them?

After 7 yrs of child-rearing, I had my first day today of having all of my four children in school.
I tried to be very productive, but wow, do those hours fly by.

It got me thinking how we got to this place. I had planned on homeschooling years ago, but I ended up with a child who wasn't interested in learning from her mother, and then I proceeded to have twins. My eldest first went to preschool when she was 4, my son when he was 3, and now the twins are going at 2 1/2. It's funny to me how in my family there seems to be a trend of going to school earlier at a younger age.

As parents we go through a whole process:
When they're babies we're not even thinking about schools and we keep putting it off in our minds. Then they're coming onto toddlerhood and you're sorting out whether to keep them home/ daycare or send them to preschool. This is not such a hard decision since there are so many Jewish preschool options in the area. Before you know it, it's time to think about elementary school and this is where all of those harder decisions come into play about where to send them? It's enough to make any parent turn prematurely gray.

I came across this interesting article called "Tuition or mortgage: Choosing public school over homelessness" by Mayer Fertig. Check it out!