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sorting the five-year-olds
June 22, 2009
After middle-of-the-night news on G&T, decision-making time
Hundreds of city parents who spent the weekend hitting their e-mail refresh button now know which gifted and talented program has accepted their child.
Word came first in the form of e-mails sent at the hoppin’ hour of, in one reader’s case, 1:20 Saturday morning. (That was an hour and 20 minutes after the city’s self-appointed (and extended) deadline to start notifying families.) Others, according to this blogger, still hadn’t heard as of 10 p.m. yesterday. Snail-mail notice is expected to land in mailboxes today, a schools spokesman, Andrew Jacob, said.
The most interesting piece of news, though, will be where these parents decide to go. Many of the families applying to gifted programs also applied to private schools, and some are reporting choosing between the two kinds of kindergartens. Will the economy cause parents to spurn private schools? (more…)
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