According to the NY Times, New York City is awash with applicants for its gifted and talented public school KINDERGARTEN classes.
Naturally, it's the anxiety-ridden parents who are driving this phenomenon. Which, of course, has opened up opportunities for a host of testing and prep services for these privileged kiddies.
Testing for admissions to KINDERGARTEN? I thought you just had to be toilet-trained. Now, according to the Times, you have to test above the 90th percentile to even have a look-see at these select classes. And what if you don't get in? Do you take your percentile and go home or join the other five-year-old’s in the playground?
One parent is concerned that his kid's 99th percentile test result might not get him in. Geez!
About 76 years ago a five-year old from the Bronx held his mother's hand as she ushered him into his first day at PS 90. About all he remembers of the day is pulling some girl's braids and the teacher telling him to stop. He passed the test of being a five-year-old boy.
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