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Young, socially awkward child: To redshirt or not to redshirt... that is the question
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Anonymous
Seems to me the solutions ought to be having kindergarten be kindergarten, and having parents, teachers, and administration agree that there's no particular virtue, and some serious disadvantages, to pushing the academic skills early. |
Anonymous
| I agree w/ the PP. Kids have many many years to be under academic pressure. What value is there in making 5 yr olds perform academically when it is clear that many of them are not developmentally ready for today's kindergarten? I loved K but my neighbor's kids who started K this year hated school by XMAS. Great job NCLB! |
Anonymous
| Agreed. Why is there busy work/homework in K? I find that so frustrating. |
Anonymous
So they can prepare them for the state tests beginning in 3rd grade of course. I have a child in K this year and I want to cry when she brings home worksheet after worksheet. It is numbing her mind (and mine already!) God forbid I ask her to actually think about what she is doing in school. She says "Mommy, I just have to do this worksheet. That's it." |
Anonymous
And "that" is the primary reason I'm sending my DC to private school. I never thought I'd "ever" do anything but public, which I've always believed in, until this god awful teaching to the test deal came on the scene. 
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Anonymous
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Our public kindergarten does give homework, but it's minimal and generally not off-putting. Very few worksheets. Discussions with parents about various concepts, writing/drawing something that they learned about topic X, etc. Only takes a few minutes to do. Plus daily reading with parents, which we do anyway.
Kindergarten's become more academic not just because of testing requirements, but also, in some cases, because of parental pressure/demands. In some respects, it's been hard for DS, but it's also challenged him in a good way and it's clear he's learned quite a bit thus far this year. |
Anonymous
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If a child in K spends more than 30-minute in homeowork per day, that is too much.
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Anonymous
| I agree with the PP - but the amount of homework is far less in our son's K (apart from the 15 minutes of reading every night) |
Anonymous
Mine goes to private and has homework about 3-4 days a week. I don't see what the problem is. |
Anonymous
| The problem w/ the homework my K gets is that it is the same busywork she does in school ALL DAY. The teachers send home their classwork and homework every 2 weeks or so and it adds up to an average of 12 papers per day. I would love if they were given some assignments that were thought provoking or something where they could do a project based on their interests. But worksheet after worksheet is such a waste of time. |
Anonymous
| My public-school K (MoCo) has homework due once a week--a journal entry answering a particular question (the kids draw a picture, and depending on their skills, label it or write a sentence about it). No formal reading assignments, no busy work. |