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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question dominant in my mind is parallel to yours. We have boy with a late birthday. We are waiting on decisions from Baltimore schools for K.

In the meanwhile, a school outside of the Baltimore has given us their decision: they recommend their Transitional Kindergarten program, which would mean at TK/K/1 sequence. They are looking mainly at developmental markers (i.e., how well he can copy shapes, shaky letter-writing, how many pieces of a man he includes in a picture). I don't know if this conversation is a good hint that we're about to be disappointed by admissions decisions in Baltimore and should have delayed a year. More important, I also don't know if there is a reason (other than financial) for us to consider TK/K instead of K/Pre-First.

If we run through the TK/K sequence, I have no idea how this lines up with Baltimore independent pacing and placement.

Any thoughts on determining the right fit? Even we don't have the option to start off school in Baltimore, we'd still like to apply down-the-road. Of course, we can also just jump into K in the neighborhood public.

Anyone who has been through the TK/K or K/Pre-1 sequences have thoughts on how it went? I'm getting a little lost, with the local public, independent, parochial schools all following their own patterns, yet with the same age cutoffs.

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Op, just send your kid to Redeemer for k and prefirst.  They are a feeder for all the  privates.  Tuition will be less than $10,000 a year and you won't need to commute out of the city.[/quote]

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