the parents are contacted and generally it's explained that if the child can't understand the rules or control herself with certain expectations, *that* child would be removed.
Huh. I wonder if this had to do with the fact that my niece is already only attending the pre-school 2 or 3 days/week. They may have decided that it's economically smarter to let her go and let the other girl stay. Which is poor child development, but sound finances. Bah.
Man, came in this morning to find yet another email from someone that My Nemesis said she would coordinate with. Three months ago. I forwarded the email to her, cc'd my boss, and attached the three-month-old email in which she said she'd take care of the issue.
If you insist on getting ownership of all this shit, you have to then do the shit. Sheesh!
Clearly my tone on the internet needs work, or else we need to rethink the ban on smilies here - I was mostly kidding.
Like others have said, it's an assessment of school readiness and major developmental milestones. (They don't actually care how tall the block tower is, they care that the kid understood the question "would you like to build a block tower?" and that the kid is physically able to pick up blocks.) Not all parents have the education level necessary to notice if their kid isn't hitting milestones, so asking "Does your child have a speech delay?" isn't necessarily going to yeild a helpful answer.
Still made me nervous as heck while we were in there. I kept biting my tongue to keep myself from saying "HIS CURRENT DAYCARE TEACHERS THINK HE'S A GENIUS! DON'T YOU ALSO THINK MY CHILD IS BRILLIANT, PRE-K TEACHER?"
Neither of my kids needed to be tested for pre-K, but the pre-K was attached to their daycare, so the teachers had basically watched my kids grow up. They did transition my boy early, though, so that he could transition with his best friend (who is almost 6 months older than he is).
I watched DH teach today. OMG, his mind and his daughter's mind work in such similar ways. I hadn't quite seen that before.
Aims, bossiness and directing the play is quite common with girls of that age, as Cash notes. I assume it's developmental. The 7 yo and the 4 yo are sisters? One thing I notice is that my two kids play well together when there's no one else there, but often spat when there is a third, esp if that third is a closer friend to one than the other. Could be that some of the stuff you're dealing with is the two sisters jockeying for position.
There, there, Jess -- we all know he's Very Advanced.
There, there, Jess -- we all know he's Very Advanced.
I thought that went without saying.
Jake was the only kid of ours tested for kindergarten, and he put on a hell of a show, attention-getting and sassy and generally off the walls. They still admitted him, although I will say now that was probably a mistake.
They may have decided that it's economically smarter to let her go and let the other girl stay. Which is poor child development, but sound finances. Bah.
Well, it's probably more complicated than that. They may be weighing a bunch of factors. When Franny was in preschool, she had a classmate with significant behavior issues. Not just hitting, scratching and biting, which are problems, but developmentally they aren't out of the ordinary. He peed on other students, peed on Franny's clothes, threw food at her regularly, etc. Parents complained (including me of course), teachers complained, but they tried to keep him enrolled. The school clearly was motivated by benign intentions, but in the end I think everyone felt a bit betrayed. Parents like me who felt the space wasn't entirely safe for their children, and the parents of the boy who was finally asked to leave.
is there really and truly a ban on smilies? It's amazing you all haven't kicked me out yet.
It's not formal or anything, but Buffistas are generally Down On Emoticons as a culture.
Jessica, it's possible my experiences with Owen have warped my perspective.
