Anonymous
01/05/2012 13:30
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
There are 2 tests that private schools administer for entrance rankings; the WPPSI and the DIAL...so yes scoring great on the one is super the 2 go hand and hand and are averaged together. While yes the one is the IQ WPPSI administered by a Psychologist, the other is administered by the school and can be gotten for $500 (as a teacher only) or there is an app that has it called Smarty Test Prep
Anonymous
01/05/2012 13:16
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Ha, I agree with 12:55. We did not prep and DCs are in a top three even though one had an abysmal score on WPPSI. Look folks, I am all in with the therapist. I want my children to enjoy learning and life. We are grateful that they are meeting and exceeding academic expectations for their ages. But I want what is best for them, not what I think it should be. If they need intervention, I don't want to force them into an academic setting just because it fits my fashion for the season. So for the PP who talked about Yorktown cluster and Wayzata, MN, I would rather find out my kids needed extra help at age 4, rather then prepping them for a test to admit them to an environment which may not be the best fit.
Anonymous
01/05/2012 12:55
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
I don't think this nutty, rambling, incoherent poster realizes she has several people taking issue with her posts.
Anonymous
01/05/2012 11:39
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Right, but you seem incapable of articulating your "point." You seem to offer nothing more than insults and babble. What exactly is your point?
Scroll back a few pages and you find it in gory detail, in prompt response to your previous request (the one offering little but insults is you, of course).
More specificity please. What's the timestamp on a post with your point?
Oh boy. It's RIGHT BELOW when you requested it the first time, and posted 4 minutes later.
Anonymous
01/05/2012 11:36
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Right, but you seem incapable of articulating your "point." You seem to offer nothing more than insults and babble. What exactly is your point?
Scroll back a few pages and you find it in gory detail, in prompt response to your previous request (the one offering little but insults is you, of course).
More specificity please. What's the timestamp on a post with your point?
I know, right? Out of 84 posts this person seems to think that you will know which one contains her point.
Anonymous
01/05/2012 11:35
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Right, but you seem incapable of articulating your "point." You seem to offer nothing more than insults and babble. What exactly is your point?
Scroll back a few pages and you find it in gory detail, in prompt response to your previous request (the one offering little but insults is you, of course).
More specificity please. What's the timestamp on a post with your point?
Anonymous
01/05/2012 11:18
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Right, but you seem incapable of articulating your "point." You seem to offer nothing more than insults and babble. What exactly is your point?
Scroll back a few pages and you find it in gory detail, in prompt response to your previous request (the one offering little but insults is you, of course).
Anonymous
01/05/2012 11:11
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Right, but you seem incapable of articulating your "point." You seem to offer nothing more than insults and babble. What exactly is your point?
Anonymous
01/05/2012 10:35
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:My kids are not old enough to prep for the PSAT, but they will someday. You are comparing apples and oranges. The SAT, PSAT etc. are tests that not only allow, but encourage prepping and taking sample tests. The WPPSI, WISC etc. are IQ tests that do not sanction the kind of prepping that they consider cheating, i.e. taking the test multiple times in one year or purchasing the exam. Honestly, however, I am done trying to explain this to you. You clearly do not understand the difference between a College Bard exam and an IQ test. It is boring to try to educate the stubborn, and you will keep posting until you are satisfied that others approve of your approach to prep. You will have to get validation from someone else.
Again missed the point. This also gets boring.
Anonymous
01/05/2012 08:49
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
My kids are not old enough to prep for the PSAT, but they will someday. You are comparing apples and oranges. The SAT, PSAT etc. are tests that not only allow, but encourage prepping and taking sample tests. The WPPSI, WISC etc. are IQ tests that do not sanction the kind of prepping that they consider cheating, i.e. taking the test multiple times in one year or purchasing the exam. Honestly, however, I am done trying to explain this to you. You clearly do not understand the difference between a College Bard exam and an IQ test. It is boring to try to educate the stubborn, and you will keep posting until you are satisfied that others approve of your approach to prep. You will have to get validation from someone else.
Anonymous
01/04/2012 20:09
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
I think you might be the original gilded nincompoop with all your purple prose. When you never say anything useful, but just spout off clever witticisms, you reveal yourself an idiot. Give it a rest already.
signed by another idiote
Anonymous
01/04/2012 20:07
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Lots of assumptions there. Signed, a poster who did not prep her kids, is not rich, believes it is unethical and counterproductive to cheat on the WPPSI, and sent her kids to a tiny, play-based preschool where nearly every child continues on to public. There were no adverse effects--my kids went on to a great independent school where they are thriving. Oh, and hey, they too learned how to read, multiply and divide without the years of toddler cramming. But if I had spent all that time doing that, I would probably want to try to justify those efforts too. Sigh...
That's great your kids do not WPPSI, PSAT or SAT prep. You are a in the minority. But, I bet your kids would contradict you. Try asking them.
Anonymous
01/04/2012 18:26
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Lots of assumptions there. Signed, a poster who did not prep her kids, is not rich, believes it is unethical and counterproductive to cheat on the WPPSI, and sent her kids to a tiny, play-based preschool where nearly every child continues on to public. There were no adverse effects--my kids went on to a great independent school where they are thriving. Oh, and hey, they too learned how to read, multiply and divide without the years of toddler cramming. But if I had spent all that time doing that, I would probably want to try to justify those efforts too. Sigh...
Anonymous
01/04/2012 18:21
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Why then do all these gilded nincompoops strut around like peacocks bragging their children do not "prep"? And their kids are in special private pre-Ks that prep these kids for years in advance of the WPPSIor PSAT. Hilarious. Then like Supreme Court Judges they accusingly crow cheating, immoral and unethical epithets at parents simply parenting their children. The rich want to get richer (and go to private school) and they want the poor to stay poor and go to public school.
I think you might be the original gilded nincompoop with all your purple prose. When you never say anything useful, but just spout off clever witticisms, you reveal yourself an idiot. Give it a rest already.
Anonymous
01/04/2012 18:10
Subject: Re:Private school testing for kindergarten?
Why then do all these gilded nincompoops strut around like peacocks bragging their children do not "prep"? And their kids are in special private pre-Ks that prep these kids for years in advance of the WPPSIor PSAT. Hilarious. Then like Supreme Court Judges they accusingly crow cheating, immoral and unethical epithets at parents simply parenting their children. The rich want to get richer (and go to private school) and they want the poor to stay poor and go to public school.