[quote=propertysearchaddiction]My son attended pre-school at All Saints in UC and I was amazed at all the kids Curie sent back each year because they were not “ready for kindergarten”. IMHO Curie seemed to be a little obsessive about levels and being the best. Some of the parents seemed a little stressed.

If you are sending your kids to Curie and you are supplementing stuff after school. I think your kids will naturally be above the curve.
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You’re right about Curie being obsessive. When we went to K orientation, the message was loud and clear “Hold your kid back an extra year.” They freaked out some of the parents about how hard transition to K was going to be. It was kind of like they were encouraging academic red-shirting.

[quote=flu]Based on how I grew up, there was simply no replacement for parents involvement in their kid’s education. [/quote]

I couldn’t agree more.

[quote=Oni Koroshi]I was a product of the GATE system in the PUSD and I don’t think I really got anything extra out of it. I remember being pulled out of my normal class a couple of times a week to meet with a teacher and a group of 4 or 5 other GATE kids. Like CBad said, I didn’t like being singled out and having to leave while all my friends were doing something else.
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That would bug me. My experience, 40 years ago, at San Diego Unified, was they clustered the kids, so each class had some percentage of GATE kids – no one was pulled out. And Seminar kids (back then called “I.S.”) were in their own class, in homogenious classes. No one was pulled out, but they had to go to a different school.

From what I’m reading – that seems to still be the model for SDUSD. I’d have very mixed/bad feelings about my sons getting pulled out of their regular class. Too much potential for stigma.

Hey sdr – are you going to the meeting on June 3rd for parents of newly identified kids?