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Anonymous wrote:You're not going to get in to any of those places for K. You will need a back up.

PP with the list. For K, she has a very good chance of getting into one of them. I am at one of the schools and I can tell you there is a lot of movement for rising K kids. Nonetheless, that's why I gave cheap private for a back up and if that was too expensive, I suggested Breakthrough and Burroughs as safety and if all else fails, give IB a shot for a year. I can't imagine her IB will do any damage in K.

Anonymous wrote:OP, your post could have been mine a little over a decade ago (DCUM didn't exist yet, just playground chatter). Bought a house, then had a child, and, well, okay, let's see, I think that baby needs to go to school some place. People looked at us in horror that we hadn't considered that way ahead of buying a house and, God forbid, conceiving a child. The school nearby, we were told, short of tortured children and was absolutely abysmal. And didn't we know that, how BAD the schools are?! (Are you stupid or what?) Well, we went on to having two children, thinking it really can't be THAT bad. And, you know what, it wasn't at all. OUR kids did really well in that "abysmal" school, where by the way they were never tortured, not even yelled at ever. They grew up to be excellent students, cheerful, driven, playful, and really very smart and well educated. They've passed several reputed tests all around; we aren't just hoping, we know. And, because we both work and don't really spend that much time hovering over homework - no tutors and all - we know that school deserves credit.

All this to say, take a deep breath and proceed with confidence!