Private school Kindergartens that might still have openings for fall?

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Anonymous wrote:Milton Gottesman is wonderful if you would consider a Jewish school - it has buses from Chevy Chase and is worth contacting. https://www.miltongottesman.org/

OP, you need to realize that Jewish day schools are not like Jewish preschools. Your kid won’t just be singing songs for Shabbat. He would become proficient in Hebrew and learn Judaica studies as a separate class. It’s a conservative Jewish environment. I have relatives who sent their kids to Jewish day school. He would potentially be the only non-Jewish kid there.

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Op, not that you asked but I’d give serious thought to just sending him to public. You already know the school from your older kids, and if it’s a disaster you can look at other options or get him more support in public. I speak from the perspective of having had a kid with anxiety and some SN who we started in private. It was pretty good/OK but we ended up keeping him there thru 8th and in retrospect probably should have also done private HS. The needs do not usually disappear after K and if money is an issue, you might be better off saving for later. Good luck!

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OP, from your post it sounds like your main source of advice is your child's preschool. What does his therapist say?

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There are a number of + comments echoing the recommendation for Washington Episcopal School (WES), and I'd add to that chorus. We've had both kids in middle school there (and one for an additional year) after moving, and it's a truly warm and creative environment. It's a PK-8 environment, and a number of my kiddos' friends were "lifers"--students who'd been there from being littles, testament to what a strong school it is. And I've been so impressed by the early childhood kids and how happy they always seem at pickup.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have any firsthand experience with Geneva Day? That's one nobody has mentioned to me yet. The drive up 270 would be challenging, but it looks very warm on the website at least. (oh and unless Stone Ridge is changing dramatically, I don't think our son will be accepted there!)

Stone Rjdge takes boys through kindergarten. But that leaves you looking for another school for first grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have any firsthand experience with Geneva Day? That's one nobody has mentioned to me yet. The drive up 270 would be challenging, but it looks very warm on the website at least. (oh and unless Stone Ridge is changing dramatically, I don't think our son will be accepted there!)

Why would going up 270 be challenging? You’re going against traffic.

Don’t have you have to come back done after drop off and on your way to the rest of your day…?

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Anonymous wrote:There are a number of + comments echoing the recommendation for Washington Episcopal School (WES), and I'd add to that chorus. We've had both kids in middle school there (and one for an additional year) after moving, and it's a truly warm and creative environment. It's a PK-8 environment, and a number of my kiddos' friends were "lifers"--students who'd been there from being littles, testament to what a strong school it is. And I've been so impressed by the early childhood kids and how happy they always seem at pickup.

My kids aren’t at WES but I would have no qualms about sending them there, and they had openings in K in May (according to second hand info).

OP did you find a school?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have any firsthand experience with Geneva Day? That's one nobody has mentioned to me yet. The drive up 270 would be challenging, but it looks very warm on the website at least. (oh and unless Stone Ridge is changing dramatically, I don't think our son will be accepted there!)

Why would going up 270 be challenging? You’re going against traffic.

Don’t have you have to come back done after drop off and on your way to the rest of your day…?

I’ve gone up and down 270 for years. I’d just throw my destination into the GPS and probably take backroads. It’s really not that bad.