Day 369: Judgement Day

So today was the dreaded Judgement Day. And not dreaded for us, but by all our obsessive Preschool parents. Today is the day where us five Preschool teachers get together and place all our kids into levels for Kindergarten. Brace yourselves, parents! There's going to be some hard and sudden reality checks for many of you!

Namely Dennis' Mom! I know that you're wishin' and hopin' that your little boy is going to go into Level 1 or 2, but the truth is we're putting him right where he belongs. And that's in Level 6. (I assume this means no more generous presents for me?)

All in all the meeting went quite well and we were all over and done with it in just 20 minutes. The five of us were all pretty much on the same page for where all the kids should be. The hardest actually was placing the top kids. There's so many brilliant kids in our program yet Level 1 only has enough room for 12. It's was hard to pick only 12 but it had to be done. And hey it's not that Level 2 is a bad place or anything! (well, in our eyes - the parents may severely disagree with that fact!)

But in the end this is how it went down for the Parrots:

Level 1 = Isabelle
Level 2 = Rachel, Khai, David
Level 3 = Hae Keun
Level 4 = Andy, Grace
Level 5 = Hyun Ji, Brittany
Level 6 = Dennis

My class, like all the others, is a nice cross-section of all the abilities that are found on the Preschool English-speaking spectrum. I've truly enjoyed teaching all of them, and hope that I don't get lynched by the parents for placing all of them in the top levels. Ah well! I know that some of the moms will probably pull their child out of POLY because they're 'too embarrassed' but that's their decision, not mine. I'm just here to be a fair and fun educator, and not to play games.