The full-day program is open to all kids who turn four by Sept. 1.
José Manuel Guzmán was playing at Mountain View Park with his kids on Tuesday morning. One of them went to transitional kindergarten, or TK, and he said it made a lasting difference.
The San Diego Unified School District’s TK program is open to all kids who turn four by Sept. 1. Guzmán said some parents might think they should wait until kindergarten before enrolling their kids in school.“They don’t realize that TK is actually preparing them for kindergarten,” Guzmán said. “When they don’t do that, they struggle when they’re in kindergarten, because all the kids that went are way ahead of them.
“It gets the students more prepared for an academic program,” she said. “It’s still rich with play and exploration and socializing, but they're learning school behaviors, learning important skills like how to share, how to collaborate, how to sit in one spot and listen to the teacher.”
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