MD/DC Schools not good enough

[Anonymous]

22:46, it is the way that you did it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

“.. .I've home schooled her her entire life ....” All 4 years of it? That is called "parenting".

In all seriousness OP, I recommend that you rethink what your expectations are for a Pre-K program. We all want the absolute best for our children - but if you searched for an entire year the greater DC / MD area for a program for your child and you only found 1 that was worthy, in essence you are telling the rest of the population that we have selected schools that are beneath you. And you are looking to this population - to advise you?

[Anonymous]

Relax. Education is not a race. Why oh why do so many parents view the early years as such? When your daughter starts schools there will be others on or near her level. She may be advanced, but others will catch up. If she's so advanced and she reads, well, then let her read. That's not homeschooling. If she is too advanced, she will not be challenged in school. In these precious preschool years why not teach her the art of living, of observation and awe? If you think it makes sense, you could try Kumon. That will keep her busy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

You need a more reasonable assessment of "worthiness." (If for no other reason, that when your daughter doesn't get into Harvard [or Duke/MIT/Princeton/Stanford/Yale] she needs to be able to go on living in your eyes.)

Work on it!

I have never settled for less just becus i wasnt accepted into some program/job/school. i raise my children to never settle for anything less than what they believe is best for them.

If you don't raise them to spell, capitalize, and understand the accepted forms of writing in English (and you'll find this a real challenge because clearly you can't do it yourself) they're going to be settling for a lot less in life than you hope for them. Seriously, based on your own writing you can't possibly be a good judge of academic quality. You wouldn't recognize Strunk & White ("The Elements of Style") if it jumped up and bit you in the face.

Im not writing a paper here...this is how i rite over the internet.....mayb ur not familiar with it cus ur sum old caucasian man or woman.... like it or not...get used to it...seem like u understood everything okay to comment about it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

This is a joke, right? How do you home-school a 4 yo? Most preschools, unless they're montessoris, are really play-based.

what are u talking about.......teach them how to write, read, spell, basic school stuff......actually i home schooled a two year old and taught her how to write read and spell....now that shes 4 we are on to new things.......i would never send a child to school to play ...yall must have money out the butt to be wasting money to have children play...they can play outside with other kids in the neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How on earth do you homeschool a 4 year old??? That is just keeping them home and teaching them stuff... not school. At this age it is about socialization, peer and adult negotiation. You can keep on "homeschooling" as you call it for preK/K, and just do activities. Also, think of why your kid was not accepted into that school - maybe the social skills were not there...

preschool is NOT about the academics!!

i dont care y my kid wasnt accepted into the school prolly cus we are black and poor ....my child has social skills shes been to preschool for 2 - 3 year olds off and on throughout the years in different sports and activities.....well like i sed u can waste ur money if u want...if its not the academics why dont u send ur child to a regular dc public school with all the "other" kids

[Anonymous]

That's great that she can read and add, but it's really more of the norm these days. My daughter was reading chapter book by the time she turned five and doing 4-digit addition....but girlfriend is going to good, ole public school next year. The kids that are not where she is will catch up in no time and she can always work on her social skills. What you should also consider is how she will transition to a place where she will not be the center of attention. Can she take turns? Raise her hand? Listen to and accept other people's ideas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

This is a joke, right? How do you home-school a 4 yo? Most preschools, unless they're montessoris, are really play-based.

I home schooled my kids in preschool. The older one just entered K, and her teachers are amazed at how well she reads. It took all of about 20 minutes a day for math and reading. But we did it EVERY day.
The "play based" thing to me can be a bit strange. I think that many preschools use that line to get around teaching academics. You don't need to do much in the way of academics, but you need to do something. Then they can play.
I wish more kids were home schooled in the early years. If I could, I would have done it up to first grade, but I don't have the time.

Thank you. Its not like im teaching my children like a regular school setting ie sit down in a chair and listen. i have a 18 month year old and a 4 year old and another on the way. ive been doing body part flash cards with my 18 month old since she was 8 months and she now recognizes them. its fun for her we have dvds with the words and songs on them. i teach my children everywhere...in the store car wherever...taught them the sign language alphabet in the store while they are sitting in the cart.....theres so much stuff to teach i dont understand how ne1 can ask what can u a teach a 4 year old

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you are new to DCUM, but we don't correct grammar and spelling. I usually assume that the majority of typos are b/c mom is holding a baby.

That's hilarious. You're the Queen of DCUM? Employing the royal "we"?

You may assume whatever you like. In the meantime, have a graduate degree, a full time job, and three children under five (5 years old). Yet I can still punctuate, spell, and manage syntax.

Perhaps your low expectations are of the soft bigotry kind?

perhaps who cares this is the internet!! why would u waste time hitting "shift letter"....nobody does that except for old mommys and daddys...actually i dont no anybody who writes correctly on a blog

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

“.. .I've home schooled her her entire life ....” All 4 years of it? That is called "parenting".

In all seriousness OP, I recommend that you rethink what your expectations are for a Pre-K program. We all want the absolute best for our children - but if you searched for an entire year the greater DC / MD area for a program for your child and you only found 1 that was worthy, in essence you are telling the rest of the population that we have selected schools that are beneath you. And you are looking to this population - to advise you?

Mayb ill have to move out of the country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive searched and searched for a year for a school my 4 year old daughter to go to this year. I found 1 private school that I found worthy but was not accepted. Ive home schooled her her entire life. She cant start kindergarten because she is "too young" but I know she is academically ready. What do I do? I dont want my daughter at home complaining shes bored and wont have the time to homeschool any longer. I need to find a place where she can learn something on her level. All the daycare/preschools ive seen are just learning ABC and 123 recognition, when my daughter can already read and add. Please help!

“.. .I've home schooled her her entire life ....” All 4 years of it? That is called "parenting".

In all seriousness OP, I recommend that you rethink what your expectations are for a Pre-K program. We all want the absolute best for our children - but if you searched for an entire year the greater DC / MD area for a program for your child and you only found 1 that was worthy, in essence you are telling the rest of the population that we have selected schools that are beneath you. And you are looking to this population - to advise you?

oops.....mayb ill move to benin and live the good life ...or mayb join a tribe where my kids wont need school we will just relax on the earth everyday eating from the trees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you are new to DCUM, but we don't correct grammar and spelling. I usually assume that the majority of typos are b/c mom is holding a baby.

That's hilarious. You're the Queen of DCUM? Employing the royal "we"?

You may assume whatever you like. In the meantime, have a graduate degree, a full time job, and three children under five (5 years old). Yet I can still punctuate, spell, and manage syntax.

Perhaps your low expectations are of the soft bigotry kind?

perhaps who cares this is the internet!! why would u waste time hitting "shift letter"....nobody does that except for old mommys and daddys...actually i dont no anybody who writes correctly on a blog

I can't imagine why your child didn't get into that school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's great that she can read and add, but it's really more of the norm these days. My daughter was reading chapter book by the time she turned five and doing 4-digit addition....but girlfriend is going to good, ole public school next year. The kids that are not where she is will catch up in no time and she can always work on her social skills. What you should also consider is how she will transition to a place where she will not be the center of attention. Can she take turns? Raise her hand? Listen to and accept other people's ideas?

If my daughter had problem doing these things I would have put that in my initial post. Also I would then not be as concerned about the school's academics since I knew she needed social skills. But this ain't the case! I just want to really know any school's that have a prek program that resembles a kindergarten program. I found one school that had a prek plus program----the children work along side the kindergartners in Arnold, Md. There must be more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you are new to DCUM, but we don't correct grammar and spelling. I usually assume that the majority of typos are b/c mom is holding a baby.

That's hilarious. You're the Queen of DCUM? Employing the royal "we"?

You may assume whatever you like. In the meantime, have a graduate degree, a full time job, and three children under five (5 years old). Yet I can still punctuate, spell, and manage syntax.

Perhaps your low expectations are of the soft bigotry kind?

perhaps who cares this is the internet!! why would u waste time hitting "shift letter"....nobody does that except for old mommys and daddys...actually i dont no anybody who writes correctly on a blog

I can't imagine why your child didn't get into that school.

who the f cares. what does that have to do with anything? do u think u saying that impacts me at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's great that she can read and add, but it's really more of the norm these days. My daughter was reading chapter book by the time she turned five and doing 4-digit addition....but girlfriend is going to good, ole public school next year. The kids that are not where she is will catch up in no time and she can always work on her social skills. What you should also consider is how she will transition to a place where she will not be the center of attention. Can she take turns? Raise her hand? Listen to and accept other people's ideas?

Thats what i thought