Play-School Blues

Ah, the day was long awaited, with great excitement - first day at school!
Play school!
but... sigh, reality is rather different.
2 hours of class, of which 1 1/2 hours are really classroom management
only main pick up points are the art and song segment which each last no longer than 10 minutes each
Free play goes on for 1/2 hour, but small children get bored in 10 min
so.. all in all, not that good an experience I would say!
within an hour, I hear my doll say, let's go home!
plus, no chance of socializing skills as yet as she insists we stay in the class with her and she wails her heart out if we leave
since the day she was born we've not been into forcing her into things - we did baby led weaning and baby led sleeping etc - the forcefully leaving her to cry for two weeks just gave us all unnecessary heart pain
and I guess so would this - if I were to say I don't care you stay in the class and learn to be by yourself no matter what - nope not in my parenting style
I'm going for the open consultative approach - where I tell her the truth and she comes to believe me - so what I'm telling her is that she has to go to school on her own, that she will soon be ready and that we will leave her on own the day she says she's ready
not sure if this is the best
but then again 2 years old is incredibly young you know
to be left all alone for two hours.
and for what? the two hours is not a fantastic use of time for her! she's getting half hour worth of good from the two hours a day and I do not advocate time wasting ever
she can learn so much more and faster with us at home and through various enrichment classes I can take her for, like music, gym and art
so - nope I believe I'm taking her out of school in 3 weeks time - just waiting for a month to go, was actually considering taking her out of school now itself but the hubby feels give it a month so let's see.