Assumption #1 - the school would post the dates when parents can register their children for Kindergarten on their official school board-operated website.
Assumption #2 - your two children would be allowed to attend the same school.
Both assumptions appear to be false.
When I could not find any information on-line, I called the school board, but no one there knew the dates for registration. I tried to call the school on a couple of occasions, but I couldn't get through. I was, however, told by the school board that the dates will be announced in the local newspaper. I feel like I am living in the 19th century.
Our older child is attending a French-immersion school and we were hoping, and falsely assuming, that our younger child could attend the same school. Unfortunately, since Kindergarten is not French-immersion, our child has to attend a school we are assigned to and switch at grade one. This, of course, means that we will never get the after-school care spaces in Grade 1, which will be taken by children entering at the Kindergarten level and a mile long waiting list will exist by the time our child wants to enroll. By the way, after calling and trying to get space for our older child months before the school started, we are still on the waiting list and we are told that the list is so extensive that we should not hope to ever get a space in the after-school care. It's now eight months after I first contacted them. Why am I not surprised, I still get phone calls from day-cares asking if we still want to remain on waiting lists we placed our younger child on almost two years ago.
