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[quote=Anonymous]Bridges parent here. We stumbled into Bridges because of the late year age cut off and I have to say that after two years, I think my son has had a real advantage of starting in a school that was focused on the lower grades and pre-school in particular. After hearing other parents who left the school to secure a spot at a long-term school, i have valued the following things about Bridges even more:
1. 6 classrooms and no more than 16 kids in each; 3 teachers per class and the additional special education teachers mean lots of adults and individualized attention. 
2. distributing a mix of 3 and 4 year olds through out each class so every kid stays in that class for two years and comes in as a learner and leaves as a leader
3. inclusionary model seems to lead to individualized teaching to meet your kid where they are at (and in pre-school, it seems to be a huge variance in a classroom)
4. staff and admin are used to dealing with pre-school parents (first time dropping off kids at school and we worry about naps, the length of the day, how they will eat, etc.)
5. PARENTS are involved and engaged

They DID get approved to expand(!) We sent our son as a way to get started in the PS system and worried about what it meant for securing a long term school later, but now, I expect that I would pass up a sibling pre-school spot at Cap City/Two Rivers, etc. for my second child to send them to Bridges first and then join their sibling at whatever school he is at. And there are several parents at Bridges who do this --- deal with multiple school schedules to stick with Bridges for their pre-schooler.[/quote]

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