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[quote=Anonymous]Our daughter has a September birthday, so this is on our mind.  We know of several kids who have successfully tested in (including one this past year, though only after appeal, and not to our home school), but a local preschool director has just warned me that the EEK acceptance rates have plummeted over the last several years. Two years ago she was telling everyone that pretty much all of her students who took the test were passing, and now she's saying that none of them are. That preschool feeds almost entirely into our home school, which is very overcrowded.  Is it possible that the school has just made a decision to stop accepting EEK kids? My understanding was that a student is scored in 7 categories, and must receive an "acceptable" score in all 7 in order to pass.  So wouldn't that be an objective test that would not be subject to manipulation by the school? Or is it possible that the county has raised the "acceptable" threshold for all schools? In our case, our daughter will not even be going to the local school because her older brother is in an immersion program so she will get a sibling spot - but I'm told that it is still her local school that will evaluate her.

Does anyone have any anecdotal experience with the recent EEK acceptance rates?  I suppose I should just call up our local school and ask what's going on, though I assume they won't want to admit anything to me. [/quote]

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