Dr. Matthew Weinberg

The Kindergarten readiness question is one of the most common and most anxiety-producing questions parents of four and five year olds face. Is my child ready? What does ready actually mean? What happens if they start and they are not ready? What happens if they are ready and we wait an extra year? These questions do not have universal answers because readiness is not a single threshold that a child either clears or does not. It is a profile of developmental markers that most children reach...

Moving to a new city with school-age children adds a layer of urgency to every other logistical challenge a relocation involves. The house, the job, the utilities all of those can be sorted out in the weeks after arrival. The school cannot wait. A child who arrives in Destin without a school placement is losing instructional time every day the enrollment process is incomplete. This guide covers what relocating families need to know about schools in Destin, Florida, how to approach the...

Families whose child has an IEP, a 504 plan, or a learning profile that has not been well served in a large classroom setting face a specific challenge when researching schools in Destin, Florida. The challenge is not finding a school that claims to support diverse learners. Every school makes that claim. The challenge is finding a school whose structure actually delivers what it claims — where class sizes are small enough for a teacher to genuinely know each student, where instruction is...