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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman and today's episode is about kindergarten admissions.

That's right, kindergarten admissions because it is really intense in some of the cities in this country and in other countries.

Getting into private school has become a really big thing.

And so this time of year a lot of schools are making their choices and parents have to come to decisions about where they're sending their children to school.

And many of them haven't been able to see the schools in person.

So we're going to talk about making that decision.

And also for those of you who are going to go through this process

in the spring and fall, I want to give you the benefit of Jamie Bacall, who is an educator and top school consultant.

Now, if you are not thinking about private school and this seems

totally irrelevant you can skip this section and move right to listener Q&A.

But I did want to answer your questions

and make sure that I got the best information to you possible. so I hope you enjoy this episode with

Jamie and I always want to hear from you so the questions at the end of this

episode are from your DMs on Instagram and I really love hearing from you

so keep those coming and I really do try to get to them and as always if you enjoy the show

please don't hesitate to subscribe and rate and even write a little review if you have time.

This year in particular, people write as we speak are about to make their decisions for what schools to go to and

they have not been able to see those schools.

So I want to address that like choosing the school, the kindergarten that's right for your kid, can you know what kind of learner they are at that age?

And then we can go into the process for people who are going to go through this next year.

I believe that a large majority of four and five year old kids will

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