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[quote=Anonymous]Took awhile to catch up.

1) what feeder school is this? We currently go to a feeder school (unconnected family) and our PSD only asked us to give her the list of schools we plan on applying to. Never did she say which ones we should and shouldn’t consider. The only caveats she mentioned were schools she knew had a lot of legacy and siblings applying.

2) many have mentioned this but the most important thing is a child’s social-emotional maturity and less about how academic they are.

3) I have a late August bday girl. We went ahead applied last year for K and of course was told “too young” to all the schools we were most interested in (one liked her and probably would of accepted her but we weren’t a fan of the school). Our PSD didn’t tell us we had to red shirt our daughter and was totally supportive when we wanted to try to apply anyway. We were essentially red shirted by the ongoing schools not our preschool.

4) My daughter got in to our first choice TT SS school for this coming year. I am happy she had another year in PreK, she’s grown so much and is learning so fast and I have no worries she won’t excel both academically and socially.

5) I feel like NYC is this weird “bubble” where parents and caregivers think their child needs to read and write by 3/4 and be efficient in math by 4/5 (multiplication, addition, subtraction etc). It’s not like this across the country or even the world. Scandinavia leads in education outcomes and they do not push academics or homework until about grade 4. All this to say is that the cut off for public school in NYC is extraordinarily late compared to many other places.

6) if you feel strongly your child needs a more academic setting and would be unhappy if red shirted by ongoing schools, you should look in to public school. Of anything you can do public school K for one year and have her possibly repeat K in private (that’s if they feel she isn’t 1st grade ready). I know a few kids who did this. 
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