Gosselin kids head back to school

Jon and Kate Gosselin may be slowly ripping apart their family, but life must go on. The Gosselin kids headed back to school this week.

“They’re all jazzed up about riding on the bus,” Jon said. “I’m happy too, because now I don’t have to drive them to school.”

At the bus pickup point in a local parking lot Thursday, the warring couple arrived in separate cars around 7 a.m. Twins Cara and Mady, 9, rode with their mom, then ran over and hugged their father before boarding. Kate walked onto the bus with them, stayed a couple minutes, then hopped off while her ex stayed in the parking lot. He paced and appeared to be texting on his phone.

Today the sextuplets will start junior kindergarten, which is only three days a week.

“Next year will be kindergarten for the little kids, and it will be five days a week,” Jon said.

While the twins are “definitely” the most excited to go back to class, said Jon, “because we live out in the middle of nowhere and all their friends are close to school.”

The little ones, not so much.

“They use each other as a security blanket,” he says. “So as long as they’re all going, (they’re not nervous). If I would send like one, they’d probably freak out.”