How much play is there in kindergarten in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name this school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name this school.

My son's K teacher has been sending home those silly paper books all year. They are way too easy for him. I don't know what's wrong with real books?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name this school.

My son's K teacher has been sending home those silly paper books all year. They are way too easy for him. I don't know what's wrong with real books?!?!

What do you mean by paper books?

[Anonymous]

Please at least tell us the town you're in with this awful-sounding school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name this school.

These schools offer Chinese FLES:

Chesterbrook ES
Clermont ES
Fairview ES
Fairhill ES
Hollin Meadows ES
Mt. Vernon Woods ES
Oak Hill ES
Providence ES
Shrevewood ES
Wolftrap ES

[Anonymous]

The paper books are leveled readers--every school doesn't do them? They are just short really dull stories marked "level a". "level f" etc.

Printed off in black and white from this website
https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/

Seriously, every school isn't stuck with these? Now I'm irritated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name this school.

These schools offer Chinese FLES:

Chesterbrook ES
Clermont ES
Fairview ES
Fairhill ES
Hollin Meadows ES
Mt. Vernon Woods ES
Oak Hill ES
Providence ES
Shrevewood ES
Wolftrap ES

That list is incomplete - my local school is slated to get it next year (or Spanish, they don't know yet), so probably other schools will also have it next year and don't appear on the list yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[

Here's a big fat to you and your son.

You're a rather mean and petty person aren't you? Do you feel good about the way you treat others?

No PP, I think the showoff deserved that completely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero play time in my son's kinder. Just worksheets and sitting at their desks all day. No toys or legos or play dough or anything that might be even vaguely fun. They don't even read - they just memorize lists of words.

What school is this? I'm sorry for your DS.

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name the school. This is useless unless you name the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Too much. My kid can play at home. He goes to school to learn.


Except that kids learn through play, especially at this age.

+10000

When five year olds are sitting and writing, they are learning to sit and write. That is not what I think a five year old should be doing. There is no advantage in doing that at five.

That's exactly what I expect my 5 year old to do. They play enough at home.

[Anonymous]

That's exactly what I expect my 5 year old to do. They play enough at home.

Most children need breaks to play and release energy. A five year old cannot be taught in the same manner as an older child. Your kid might be different, but most need a lot of play and not on a "home only" schedule. Their cognitive and biological needs don't cycle in five hour blocks of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[

Here's a big fat to you and your son.

You're a rather mean and petty person aren't you? Do you feel good about the way you treat others?

No PP, I think the showoff deserved that completely.

Np here. Yes, that was one of the most obnoxious things Ive ever read on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero play time in my son's kinder. Just worksheets and sitting at their desks all day. No toys or legos or play dough or anything that might be even vaguely fun. They don't even read - they just memorize lists of words.

What school is this? I'm sorry for your DS.

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name the school. This is useless unless you name the school.

If you were having problems at your neighborhood school (where you own a home), would you name it on a public forum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero play time in my son's kinder. Just worksheets and sitting at their desks all day. No toys or legos or play dough or anything that might be even vaguely fun. They don't even read - they just memorize lists of words.

What school is this? I'm sorry for your DS.

An fcps elementary - it's awful. Parents are moving out of this neighborhood to get out of the school. Some are happy, but there seems to be a large minority - maybe 25% - of kids that are just miserable and can't cope there. The classes are way overcrowded, but fcps keeps adding things to the school- stupid FLES (Chinese? Really??), head start, etc. Every year we get two or three new programs that take up space and money, but we don't have enough teachers for regular classes and we don't even have basic resources like books for the kids in reading groups (they read little xerox books that they staple together themselves and the teacher downloaded from the internet).

Please name the school. This is useless unless you name the school.

If you were having problems at your neighborhood school (where you own a home), would you name it on a public forum?

Yes, I would. There is absolutely nothing that PP wrote that can be tracked back to her or him. Why wouldn't you want to let the entire community know about these problems?

[Anonymous]

My child's kindergarten has recess once a day for 35 minutes, nap time for the first half of school, gym 3 times a week, music 2 or 3 times, art for an hour a week, and I never felt it was too academic... all they were learning were the sight words, which they did in many creative ways, and then counting to 100, and colors, but it was definitely not sitting in their desks all day. One of my sons, like to stand and sing while he worked, and that didn't bother the teacher at all. My kids LOVED K. And they were late summer birthdays.