Reply to What kind of questions are asked for the early entrance testing for kindergarten

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "What kind of questions are asked for the early entrance testing for kindergarten"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's designed to measure a bunch of different school readiness skills and what we were told was that there's no "passing" or "failing" on the test. It's just information to give the principal who makes the final decision.

A child could get every question right on the test but if there's no room at the school the principal will reject the EEK application. The space question varies year to year. Principals may be more generous if the class sizes are small or if they need a few extra kids to get an additional teacher. If the class size is already 26 or 27 or whatever the max is these days they may not accept any kids that year.

In our year the three K classes were all at the max so the principal accepted no one through EEK and later in the year actually informally suggested some kids leave and repeat pre-K and come back the following year.

My child did not do EEK but a close friend's child applied.[/quote]

I do not think a public school can ask kids who who made the cutoff to leave mid year?  They can certainly recommend repeating K but there is no counseling out in public school.[/quote]

Legally, yes, but you haven't met this principal. That's his m/o, and it's been going on for years. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics