Kindergarten Mom!

So we are two weeks into school. So far I would give the overall experience a probably a 7. Let me explain why.. although since I am new to this whole school I might be a little off. Let me start by saying I really like Ammon's teacher she is really nice and Ammon seems to like her which I think is great. The first few days of school I took Ammon and picked him up everyday. Not sooo bad right.. well there is major construction on the main road to get there and the school is a good 15 mins away. Not so great! Although next year the new school will be built and it will nice and close by. So many of my neighbors and friends all started by putting their kids on the bus and following it to school the first few days to make sure their children got there, which seemed silly to me I might as well be driving him if I am going to follow the bus. By friday though Ammon was requesting to ride the bus. Soo I went in to the front office and figured out the very confusing bus schedual ( I never rode the bus as a child.. not till I got to High school. ) I then praciticed with Ammon over and over again which bus to get on and where to get off. The first day... well he didn't get off the bus, he did however get on the right bus. So I had to radio the bus driver to have them bring him back. The second day he got on the right but and I made sure he got off in the right spot. The third day I was a little late getting out the door ( due to nursing) and yes alas he told me after the fact he did not get off the bus because he did not see me. So again I had to radio the bus and have them bring him back. His bus drive is really nice though. So points for that. Since then we have had no more incidents on with the bus. Now I am still taking him to school in the mornings, I am not sure that I am ready to get him on there in the mornings and not know if he made it to school and his class room, so I take him and drop off. Although the principal gets annoyed when we watch our kids walk to their class room doors and yells out that its not a parking lot, its a drop of spot.. SOOOOO LAME I FEEL LIKE A TEENAGER IN TROUBLE OR SOMETHING. I just roll my eyes... It is my freaking right to make sure my kid gets to where he needs to be and stingy principal is going to tell me otherwise. Now, I am also picking beef with what was printed in the newsletter that was sent home... it talks about appropriate forms of play during recess... tag is apparently not an appropriate form of play due to the fact that kids dont watch where they are running and get hurt. But appropriate forms of play include, wall ball, soccer, flag football.. ect... now how in the world can they play all those things and not get just as hurt?? if not more hurt? Can someone please tell me??? Or am I just being lame?? The other major thing that had me going was that printed in the newsletter was a note to parents picking up their children from school... it stated that in order to avoid to much congestion to pick up our children 7 mins after the bell has rung. I think this is really lame.. In my mind no decent parent would go pick their child up that late on purpose especially the younger they are. On wed though after Aaron had come home from work he asked Ammon how is day at school was and Ammon proceeded to tell him that a kid at recess had choked him and the teacher had to pull the other kid off.. ( WHAT THE HECK) why was I not called or something??? It also stung just a little that I had asked Ammon when he got home how is day was and he told me fine and showed me all of his cool work he did, but had said nothing about the recess incident. So overall it hasn't been terrible but I know that am already feeling a little anxiety over this whole school thing. But for the most part it is not so bad and Ammon loves going to school so far.. ( except for the day after the choking incident) . Hopefully it will get a little easier and a little better.