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Mrmilkymilkster t1_jcl3qza wrote

Reply to comment by HamsterCultural3081 in NYC has thousands of 3-K vacancies. City Council says that’s an outreach problem by Ok-Training-7587

You’re most likely extremely fortunate as your child is far ahead of the curve.

That’s mostly likely a reflection of you having a gifted child and looking for a specific school to advance her gifts than the school curriculum for 3 and 4 year olds.

Probably need to correct your focus there.

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ZA44 t1_jcovf60 wrote

Maybe I’m just cynical but just hand waving that his kid is gifted is a cop out to excuse the horrible public school performance.

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Mrmilkymilkster t1_jcow9df wrote

Well, it’s just my experience, having a 4 year old that I worked very hard with to overcome some delayed learning and speech problems, at these early ages, it’s mostly luck of the draw when it comes to them being gifted. It’s a lot about identifying strengths and weaknesses and addressing it. That’s the work. So if your kid needs more work in the basics, that’s what you’re addressing, if your kid is gifted you need to find an environment that excels that gift.

Basic 3k and 4K is very simple stuff, but it’s important and really good, a lot of it is socialization. And that’s kind of easy.

So this person has a gifted kid, and that’s awesome and she’s doing a great job addressing that, but the truth is 3k and 4K isn’t the problem for her, she needs to find the right environment to hone and develop her child’s talents. That’s not a public school problem especially at that age.

Now when we get to middle and high school I agree with. But of course we can never ignore a parent’s involvement in their kid’s development.

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