Follow up.
We found out that DD did not get into the Special Music School. Terribly upset about the "rejection" but after 5 minutes, I realized that I am glad she didn't. Although it is a good gifted school, I really couldn't see me making the decision to center DD's life around the piano. You have to sign a contract agreeing the practice schedule. Starting with 30 minutes in K, progressing 30 minutes each year until you get to 3 hours a day. And have two 45 minute lessons a week.
DD is obsessed with ballet and wanted to try out for the NYC ballet school though they also have a 9/1 DOB cut off so she has to wait until next year when she will be 6. She loves her gymnastics and she takes Mandarin. I cannot imagine how she would fit in the practice and still have that time to hang upside down in the playground with her friends.
How that rationalization for the rejection?
My second reaction was to check out Speyer but again they have the 9/1 cut-off and DD would have redo K.
So we are still waiting on OLSAT but won't get those results until late April. Even if she scores well, you go into the lottery for the few seats available.
And this is when I say I am glad for this board, because I now have a back up plan. We are in the zone for one of 2 best public schools in NYC for K-5. And we are just hiring someone and set up an EPGY program to keep her math advanced and supplement with Mandarin, science, music and the other.
Ren
