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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious, were the other K "visits" any better though? Don't they all do that type of questioning?

St. Pats read a story and asked questions. Very informal. Then had the kids make something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

[Anonymous]

Guess doing assessments is the best bang for the buck for the limited time, since there is no wppsi this year. I'm sure they can get a sense of child's personality as they respond to the questions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

Yikes, I am familiar with the school and I know they would not want it to go this way. I presume a lot of their energy right now is directed to running hybrid (an explanation, not excuse). It sounds like they directly transferred something that worked well in 'real life' to Zoom, and it didn't work well/is uncomfortable. if you are comfortable doing so, please pass the feedback along so they can address this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

Exactly. I feel like if you engage the child first, they would be more inclined to participate. Especially a shy child. For example, have the child bring their favorite toy and ask them to tell you about it. It’ll get them talking about something they like and give energy. When you just ask about of questions formally, that doesn’t always work but if you want a class of all extroverts, then it is what it is. Like literally, my kid was not engaged. Answered some questions but not all AND he knew them all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

Exactly. I feel like if you engage the child first, they would be more inclined to participate. Especially a shy child. For example, have the child bring their favorite toy and ask them to tell you about it. It’ll get them talking about something they like and give energy. When you just ask about of questions formally, that doesn’t always work but if you want a class of all extroverts, then it is what it is. Like literally, my kid was not engaged. Answered some questions but not all AND he knew them all.

That's weird. I wonder if they pulled someone in who isn't the regular person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

Exactly. I feel like if you engage the child first, they would be more inclined to participate. Especially a shy child. For example, have the child bring their favorite toy and ask them to tell you about it. It’ll get them talking about something they like and give energy. When you just ask about of questions formally, that doesn’t always work but if you want a class of all extroverts, then it is what it is. Like literally, my kid was not engaged. Answered some questions but not all AND he knew them all.

That's weird. I wonder if they pulled someone in who isn't the regular person

I don’t think so. I think these were K teachers. Which really had be concerned because I didn’t get any of the untrue that this board raves on when it comes to NPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid had an assessment for K and it was weird. They claim the assessment was going to be with humility, blah blah and the teacher my son had was horrible. She breezed through the questions in like 10 minutes. The admissions director seemed cold during the zoom. Just has me rethinking the school all together. The teacher had my son like a robot: Your name, last name, how old are you, birthday, etc. no easing into as you should do with your kids as they claim to be early childhood oriented. Sorry for the rant!

My child had a similar experience during the zoom assessment. I was surprised that there was no warming up chit-chat to establish some rapport before the teacher started asking the prepared questions. I'm not sure what they are looking for during the assessment of a child for k during these meetings, but if they were hoping to get a sense of the child's personality, I don't think they are going to be able to get an accurate read via zoom.

Exactly. I feel like if you engage the child first, they would be more inclined to participate. Especially a shy child. For example, have the child bring their favorite toy and ask them to tell you about it. It’ll get them talking about something they like and give energy. When you just ask about of questions formally, that doesn’t always work but if you want a class of all extroverts, then it is what it is. Like literally, my kid was not engaged. Answered some questions but not all AND he knew them all.

That's weird. I wonder if they pulled someone in who isn't the regular person

I don’t think so. I think these were K teachers. Which really had be concerned because I didn’t get any of the untrue that this board raves on when it comes to NPS

I was trying to say any of the “nurture” that this board says NPS has. Darn typos

[Anonymous]

Tough year, cut them some slack?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough year, cut them some slack?

They should cut the kids some slack as well!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tough year, cut them some slack?

They should cut the kids some slack as well!

I doubt it was teachers because they don't usually have teachers do assessments/interviews etc..usually specialists. I'm just wondering who they roped in. The K teachers are SUPER nice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tough year, cut them some slack?

They should cut the kids some slack as well!

I doubt it was teachers because they don't usually have teachers do assessments/interviews etc..usually specialists. I'm just wondering who they roped in. The K teachers are SUPER nice.

They said it was K teachers but who knows

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tough year, cut them some slack?

They should cut the kids some slack as well!

I doubt it was teachers because they don't usually have teachers do assessments/interviews etc..usually specialists. I'm just wondering who they roped in. The K teachers are SUPER nice.

They said it was K teachers but who knows

Please.pass your experience on OP. This is admin stuff
Whoever administered it was surely following some instructions or plan theyd been given. But whats described does not reflect well. And NPS wouldnt want people alienated by their own admissions mechanisms.

[Anonymous]

At this stage, an applicant might not want to say anything for fear being thought of as “that parent.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough year, cut them some slack?

They should cut the kids some slack as well!

I doubt it was teachers because they don't usually have teachers do assessments/interviews etc..usually specialists. I'm just wondering who they roped in. The K teachers are SUPER nice.

They said it was K teachers but who knows

Please.pass your experience on OP. This is admin stuff
Whoever administered it was surely following some instructions or plan theyd been given. But whats described does not reflect well. And NPS wouldnt want people alienated by their own admissions mechanisms.

I’ll say because I’m sure I’m not the only person you applied for their son for K. The administration knows because they were on Zoom. You had to long on zoom with admissions and then they put you in a breakout room with the teacher while they observed. They definitely know. Maybe they tweaked for assessments after ours because I believe we were the first ones in early January.