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ParticipantI just heard that HP’s facility in RB was hit last week.
ParticipantI just heard that HP’s facility in RB was hit last week.
ParticipantHuh? I hope someone besides him got the joke.
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Participant[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.
[/quote]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.
[/quote]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?
Participant[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.
[/quote]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.
[/quote]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?
Participant[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.
[/quote]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.
[/quote]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?
Participant[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.
[/quote]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.
[/quote]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?
Participant[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.
[/quote]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.
[/quote]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?
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
ParticipantThanks Piggs –
My son was just identified GATE and just missed Seminar if you can believe the raven percentile. (I knew he was smart, but didn’t know it was that close.) Our school, Curie Elementary, is top ranked… but we’ve had a few ‘bad fits’ with teachers – twice my older son has had teachers who didn’t ‘get’ him and held him back to the class level in math and science. The result was a lot of boredom and resentment… not something I want going forward. I’m hoping 3rd grade will be a better experience because at least he’ll have a teacher that has some training in GATE kids. In theory, he won’t be held back to the grade level in the subjects he’s good at. I think our situation was teacher specific because friends’ kids, who had different teachers, did not have the same teacher, and their kids were encouraged to move to their level in the various subjects they were strong in.
(SDUSD requires GATE certification for GATE cluster teachers – but since the GATE program doesn’t start till the 3rd grade…)
I have a good friend who’s kids are, I’m certain, seminar level. She was a product of seminar and her husband is also off-the-charts smart. They’re moving back sunny San Diego next year. I was trying to figure out what advice/experience I could glean from the Piggs here about school districts for exceptional kids.
It’s not in my future to do private schools – not unless I give up the idea of retirement. I do supplement educational stuff after school – my sister is a teacher who gives me materials to work with.
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