{"id":2716,"date":"2013-08-17T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-08-17T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:35:00","slug":"umcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"UMCS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wow! We just got a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanmontessori.org\/faq\">Urban Montessori Charter School<\/a>&#8212;Robin has been offered a spot in their first-grade class!<\/p>\n<p>And we accepted it. We weighed out the pros and cons of going with UCMS versus Kaiser: the only real drawback is that Robin will be skipping kindergarten, and that&#8217;s a disadvantage that is mitigated by the mixed-age classrooms and individualized instruction under the Montessori model. Robin&#8217;s still not a fully proficient reader, but I spent some time going through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corestandards.org\/ELA-Literacy\/RF\/K\">Common Core<\/a> standards and Robin does meet the language goals for a graduating kindergartner. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll be too far behind the curve.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else weighs in favor of UMCS. They&#8217;re located within walking distance of our house so dropoffs and pickups will be easy. Their program goes to eighth grade so we won&#8217;t have to go through a lottery for junior high. And the most important factor by far: we were impressed with the school during our visits and think the program will be a good fit for Robin.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is really good news, even if it does mean some last-minute scrambling and readjustment of plans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wow! We just got a call from Urban Montessori Charter School&#8212;Robin has been offered a spot in their first-grade class! And we accepted it. We weighed out the pros and cons of going with UCMS versus Kaiser: the only real drawback is that Robin will be skipping kindergarten, and that&#8217;s a disadvantage that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}