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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the friendly response, I don’t know if we’re applying to the school your kid attends but I sure as hell hope not.[/quote]

Perhaps I could have been more kind. But you sound like so many NYC moms. And based on your tone, you sound like someone who is clearly very focused on top schools, hence my assumption you want TT.

Your kid actually sounds a lot like my younger one who is roughly the same age. Having had an older child who had top notch academics and executive function skills, having a kid who needed more handholding was a change. But we quickly figured it out. Plus kids who are now in roughly grades 4-8 are the ones who got hit hardest by Covid as they missed the key early school years where you learn basic functioning skills.

You will quickly find out that particularly in public school, you need to personally stay on top of things - there are a number of incredible teachers, but there are plenty who are just trying to get through the day and managing the really difficult kids, so if your kid is doing "fine," which understandably is probably less than your expectation for your child, they will get ignored.

I wish you the best of luck. And I hope you step back and focus on what is truly best for your kid and prioritize accordingly. And I also hope our kids do not end up in the same place (my older child is not at a "TT" even though they were more than capable of going to one - my younger child will almost definitely not be going to a TT because it would not be the right place for them, even though they are academically smart enough to handle it).[/quote]

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