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Where is your 99.9% WPPSI kid thriving?
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Anonymous
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I am not a troll. I really want to know. If your kid had evenly balanced subtests and got a FS score in the mid-high 140's on the WPPSI (or better) where is that kid happy? Where is that kid not happy? Is the school doing anything different with them? How old are they now?
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Anonymous
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This has been covered in many previous threads, so please do an archive search. In a nutshell, you want to look for a school that will individualize subjects as needed (i.e., give a child appropriate-level books to read, accelerate in math if necessary). You also want a school that has lots of non-core subjects (i.e. art, music, science, etc.)--those are critical to a child who doesn't need much instruction in the core reading and math. (Most privates have the latter, so that shouldn't be too difficult.) You want to steer clear of a school that says, "Well, all our children are gifted" (a phrase used as a direct quote from Sidwell, BTW) or that refuses to do any meaningful subject acceleration. Sidwell, for example, specifically told us that they do NO subject acceleration in the lower years, so we didn't even apply there.
Our 99.9% child is now thriving at a private school that gets mentioned here but is niether Sidwell, nor GDS, nor Beauvoir. |
Anonymous
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Thanks-
I have read all of the relevant threads. I am seeking the actual names of the schools rather than criteria. Also have not seen that much about the 99.9s as opposed to the 99s. |
Anonymous
oh, for heaven's sake. may i suggest there isn't much difference between a 99 and a 99.9 except, perhaps, whether or not your kid had a cold on the day of the WPPSI? you're really reading way too much into that score! |
Anonymous
| The poster is asking a specific question (hint to all students: read the question) not for your opinion about the difference between 99 and 99.9 percentile! Answering the question is critical if you or your children wish to do well on these types of tests! |
Anonymous
| The score is only one factor. One kid's 99.9% isn't another kid's 99.9%. We'd have to know other things about the child: sex, disposition, likes & dislikes, outgoing or shy? Popular or not? Friends or no friends? Multicultural? Bi-lingual? Likes to play in big groups or medium groups or small groups? Can already write his name? Can already read? You get the idea. 99.9% is not "one size fits all". |
Anonymous
| The poster is only inquiring about kids with 99.9 percentile scores, nothing more, nothing less. In other words...no other factor (s). Do you understand the question now? "Where is your 99.9% WPPSI kid thriving?" |
Anonymous
| PP -- I really do get the question -- trust me. I can read. The answer again is "one size does not fit all" for a student who has earned a 99.9%. |
Anonymous
| You have not answered the question. |
Anonymous
I understood the question. I just couldn't resist commenting on the silliness of the OP's earnest belief that there's really a huge difference between her child's 99.9 (clearly a genius!) and the mere 99's. As other posters have noted, your kid's WPPSI score is just one factor in what kind of school you should choose for them. It's just not that important. |
Anonymous
| Do not insert your words/opinions/bias for those of the poster. Indeed, if you can read, you will discover that the poster did not say the things you state. Go back and read the posters direct words. You have this habit of misquoting posters on dcum! |
Anonymous
| If you think this distinction is bad between 99.9 and "just" 99 -- you'll love when the kids are old enough for the SATs. Many parents feign fear by saying someting like..."oh I'm just so worried Johnny only got a 2380...everyone else got a 2400"... or something crazy like that. They do it just to make sure everyone knows their kid got a near -perfect SAT score. That doesn't matter either -- that is just one factor in the selection process. And before anyone says I am jealous, I'm not. My child did not get a perfect SAT score/did not get perfect pre-school scores or SSAT scores and got into top Ivy. |
Anonymous
| The poster's words are crystal clear. Your hallucinations and impersonations are dull. You are having a conversation with your inner self. |
Anonymous
NP here. If you want to quantify the difference between 99.0 and 99.9, you could look at the relative rarity of those scores. About 1-in-100 children score 99.0, and about 1-in-1000 score 99.9, so the difference is a factor of 10. For comparison's sake, a factor of 10 is the same difference between a 90.0 (1-in-10) and a 99.0 (1-in-100). Maybe you should cut OP a little slack instead of poking at her numbers. I read her question as essentially saying "I have a really super-crazy smart child. What schools might be good fit?" And she backed up her claim with numbers from her child's WPPSI, which is a lot more clear than "super-crazy smart." I think OP's question is a legitimate one that deserves serious answers |
Anonymous
| You're angry pp. I am just one of the responders (15.42) -- so you must be insulting someone else too -- 15:37. |