Monday, February 22, 2010

Abnormal

I am normally very decisive.

I know what I want and I take action.

This move or don't move, or do it now or wait thing has me perplexed.

On one hand we have done a lot of simple things to get our current house to be just what we want, and have a few more things planned. So in a perfect world Jett would have just gotten into Stix and not be on a waiting list. Or at the very least the St. Louis Public schools would not seem to be full of ineptness and I could trust I could get a simple straight answer, so I could plan what I need to do.

I won't even go into the fact that if the city schools were not hunks of shit outside the magnet school program the city would be better in every way. But that is not the case.

But I stand in the question of I could wait the 10-15 days I was told it will be till we truly know if he is in or not. But would it really be that amount of time? Or would it drag on and then we would be all out of options?

We found a house in a great district that we like and is the right price. So we could just say fuck it and buy it and work to sell our house.

But then what if we start that process and then Jett does get in? Would that extra work and stress be worth the new district and having to start over making a house our home?

Also we looked at 3 open house yesterday. The one we like has everything we want:
Right size
Right number of bedrooms and bathrooms
A perfect place for the TV area
The type of architecture we want
Great schools
Awesome street
Good price
Would give us a great reason to purge a lot of crap we have

Which is where it starts to seem like a no brainer. And to just buy the house. But my love of our current house and current area of town is stopping me from just making the plunge.

I also am such a believer of if something is meant to be it will all work out. But right now I'm not sure what is meant to be:
NEw house or that in 10 days we learn that all this worry was for nothing.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

If you have the ability to move, do it, without hesitation. My daughter is in a similar magnet school (Wilkinson) & it's super ghetto, it's horrible. Even the magnet schools are worthless (besides Kennard maybe). i think a lot has changed since your older son was in elementary school.

Unknown said...

This is a tough choice. It's great to be an urban pioneer and sticking with the City, even under this crazy school system, is admirable. But you have to do what's best for your family, either way. Good luck! No matter what you decide I'm sure it will be the best choice for you and yours.

 
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