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My daughter missed the kindergarten cutoff by 22 days. I visited the Cupertino school district office to inquire about testing for kindergarten readiness. My daughter had been at a Montessori preschool so she could read, do basic math, and she had siblings so she was socially adept. The people at the district office laughed in my face and said there is no such test, but that she was welcome to enroll in transitional kindergarten, which is a public program for 4 year olds who missed the kindergarten cutoff by fewer than 3 months. These kids can do one year of TK followed by one year of K.The only other alternative would be to put her into private for kindergarten AND 1st grade, then enroll her in public school starting in 2nd grade when they no longer have an age cutoff. But when I did research on this situation, I learned that no one in Cupertino wants their kids to be young for their grade, and in fact they work hard to ensure the opposite. Many parents hold their kids back to give them an academic advantage. They often wait until they're 6 to enter kindergarten.So in the end, we did TK followed by K, which allowed her to be on the older end for her class, setting her up to be Ivy League material like the rest of her class, save for the kids whose parents lied about their age to get them into kindergarten early and are clearly headed for a safety school, like Berkeley.

Because of this:I can only assume that the questioner doesn’t remember the 1980s in the USA. I do.One particular subtype of metal—Los Angeles-style pop/glam metal—was quite mainstream throughout the 1980s. I’m talking ridiculously poofy hair, sultry makeup and Spandex, and songs that waxed rhapsodic about the joys of hookers and blow on the Sunset Strip, the constant dangers of rough life on those mean streets, the need for nothing but a good time, and sorrowful philosophical reflections on every rose having its thorn and every cowboy singing a sad, sad, song. You know. These guys:And these guys, who were actually a different band, despite both having very attractive blondes in the lineup who in fact were men:And these guys, who also strictly followed the one-bleach-blonde-per-group rule:I remember now. . . dancing to Quiet Riot’s “Cum On Feel Tha Noize” at Homecoming 1983. . . Ratt’s “Round and Round” grabbing a heck of a lot of airplay in the summer of 1984. . . Judas Priest’s “Locked In” and Dokken’s “In My Dreams” constantly on MTV in the hotel room, the week the quiz bowl team went to a national tournament. . . Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and “Nothin’ But A Good Time” as essential tracks on the soundtrack of my senior year in high school. . . and Guns ’n’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” on heavy rotation on MTV during my freshman year in college. It was never the only thing I listened to, or even what I always liked best, but it was always there on the pop charts. And I had friends who were a lot deeper into metal than I was, who crushed their eardrums with everything from the relatively cutting-edge (early Metallica, Slayer, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X) to the merely obscure (Triumph, Lillian Axe, Lizzy Borden).And suddenly, right as I was starting grad school and headbangin’ after hours to KRQR. . . on September 24, 1991, Nirvana released Nevermind. Seemingly overnight, everyone got tired of endless songs about how much fun it was to endlessly bang strippers and snort cocaine, and started loving songs about how much fun it was to endlessly seethe with existential angst and snort industrial solvents. On the willows there, we hung up our Dio “Live Evil” T-shirts, and put on our lumberjack flannels and Doc Martens, and that was pretty much it. Sic transit gloria metalli.As Elton Edgar points out, today there are so many subgenres of metal—power, symphonic, technical, groove, prog, speed, death, black, melodeath, blackened melodeath, and whatever the heck it is that Meshuggah does—that I don’t know if “metal” will ever go mainstream, at least in the US. (On the other hand, in Scandinavia it’s somewhat more mainstream—not everyone listens to it, of course, but metal albums still seem to chart high. See This Map Shows Which Countries Dominate The World Of Metal Music, and Why is the metal music genre so popular in Scandinavia? Lyonel Perabo, do you have anything to contribute here? Is Norway really the land where children sing Dimmu Borgir anthems in kindergarten?)Oh, well, maybe one of these will break through to mass popularity someday. . .

By popular do you mean public or private?I'm a fan of toddlers being able to stay at home with a caring parent, but for those working parents that don't have a choice you have plenty of options from the many preschools and state funded programs.In 2010 the California Dept of Education passed a law stating that public schools had to start offering Pre Kindergarten (also called PreK, TK, Transitional Kidergarten or Kindergarten readiness) programs. This hasn't been evenly applied across school districts or charter schools, and with public schools so focused on standardized tests I'm not convinced they are the best ones to run an institutionalized program for 4 year olds with Fall birthdays (IMHO). That said check with your local school district or the California State Department of Education.Child Developmenthttp://www.edline.net/pages/Cupertino_Union_SD/Registration/TKRegistrationIf you know what private school you are trying to get your child into you might want to check with them to see if they have a recommendation. Many of them have added pre-Kindergarten as an option at their school. These programs can be a good way to get into a popular private school. St Leo and 16 other Catholic schools in Santa Clara County have added PreK programs. This is useful if you have multiple kids and want to have a single drop off for kids aged 4-14 (PreK-8th grade).Catholic Schools ListBay Area Parent has free magazines with lots of Open House ads for preschools in the area. The print edition is easier to navigate than the website (look for free mags at kid related stores. I'm a fan of Montessori schools for fostering children's creativity and independence.Welcome to Bay Area ParentMontessori education