So tired of "my child is so bored in K"

[Anonymous]

If I hear another parent tell me their child is "so bored" in K, I will scream. You would think that our little snowflakes are all geniuses with absolutely nothing they could gain from K at all. Just because little Timmy "already knows how to read" doesn't mean he can't learn some good social skills in K. Some of the most socially immature, whiny kids are the same ones whose parents are filling their heads with "don't worry Johnny, I know you are SO bored in K and won't learn anything new."

[Anonymous]

Sorry OP. My kid is bored in K and since she's been in pre-school is just fine socially and won't call out your child on not knowing their letters or numbers yet.

[Anonymous]

That's okay - mine is still bored 6 years later - not as much - it actually peaked in first grade

[Anonymous]

I didn't say it to my kid or to other parents, but mine was bored in K. Not bored at recess or lunch, when the social stuff was available. But during class time she was pretty bored. Not really possible to give a well-behaved kid who already knew the stuff that was being taught much attention or challenge.

[Anonymous]

If you prepared your child right, they are fine socially and academically. Just because you are too lazy to work with you kid and expect the school to do everything, does not mean all parents are. At 5, kids are not supposed to be socially mature. They have only been alive for 5 years. That is a bunch of bunk for parents who want to be lazy and think it is the schools job to provide everything.

I would be embarrassed if my K. did not know basic letters, numbers, shapes, colors and at a minimum starting to read. I get so tired of parents in a position to help their kids and instead spend their time complaining about others kids who spent the time teaching and working with them. If your child does not have social skills or understands how to be in a classroom and do work, that is immature. And, that's a failure on your part.

[Anonymous]

I think most of the kids who are bored in K just prefer the play based style of the preschool classroom. There is a lot more sitting and focused work. Most K classrooms offer something for kids at various levels. They know their letters but are working on writing them into words and making them better on the page.

[Anonymous]

School is boring for the majority of kids I know. I mean, really, really, boring. I remember being bored out of my mind during kindergarten and pretty much all the way through high school. Got interesting and fun once I hit university.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, when I hear that a Ker is bored, I think to myself, "there must be something wrong with the teacher." Our K experience includes a kid who was reading at the second-grade level at the start of school as well as a kid who wasn't reading at all. Neither were bored. The teachers met them where they were and provided plenty of challenge for both. Both came home with tales of growing vegetables, exploring outside, new songs, new friends, computer time and fun at art.

Any good K teacher knows their class represents a wide range of skills and strengths and works with it!

[Anonymous]

School is boring for kids who don't start the year knowing it all too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you prepared your child right, they are fine socially and academically. Just because you are too lazy to work with you kid and expect the school to do everything, does not mean all parents are. At 5, kids are not supposed to be socially mature. They have only been alive for 5 years. That is a bunch of bunk for parents who want to be lazy and think it is the schools job to provide everything.

I would be embarrassed if my K. did not know basic letters, numbers, shapes, colors and at a minimum starting to read. I get so tired of parents in a position to help their kids and instead spend their time complaining about others kids who spent the time teaching and working with them. If your child does not have social skills or understands how to be in a classroom and do work, that is immature. And, that's a failure on your part.

Wow, you sound like a big jerk. Hopefully you aren't passing that onto your little snowflake, and let us hope that you mature a bit during this first year of K. All kids are different, and develop differently. Most kids in K do not know how to read, often the one's who do struggle in other areas. The parent's who are going around doing humble bragging are putting out their own issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, when I hear that a Ker is bored, I think to myself, "there must be something wrong with the teacher." Our K experience includes a kid who was reading at the second-grade level at the start of school as well as a kid who wasn't reading at all. Neither were bored. The teachers met them where they were and provided plenty of challenge for both. Both came home with tales of growing vegetables, exploring outside, new songs, new friends, computer time and fun at art.

Any good K teacher knows their class represents a wide range of skills and strengths and works with it!

You are probably right. I didn't think so when mine was in K, because I liked the teacher. But I now realize that the teacher basically ignored my kid. I can tell the difference now that we have a first grade teacher who actually engages her.

[Anonymous]

Only boring people are bored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only boring people are bored.

Really? You think kindergarten kids are boring people? Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, when I hear that a Ker is bored, I think to myself, "there must be something wrong with the teacher." Our K experience includes a kid who was reading at the second-grade level at the start of school as well as a kid who wasn't reading at all. Neither were bored. The teachers met them where they were and provided plenty of challenge for both. Both came home with tales of growing vegetables, exploring outside, new songs, new friends, computer time and fun at art.

Any good K teacher knows their class represents a wide range of skills and strengths and works with it!

Yup!
Sure, there are times of boredom in school (and that's going to be true no matter how advanced or behind you are!) but generally they work seemed pretty open ended. A lot of "write or draw" assignments so that kids who were already reading and writing could practice that and kids who were still learning could still do the material-part of the assignment. A lot of work that was easily adaptable depending on ability. My son's favorite "center" was the letter blocks - you build words out of letter blocks. So some kids could build "cat" and some kids could write sentences. If your oh-so-brilliant child chooses to do the simplest and most basic of work when given open-ended activities, that's a character trait you should probably work on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only boring people are bored.

As general rule of life, yes. But even non-boring people can be bored when they have to sit somewhere for a long time with nothing but just sitting.

I can't read on the Metro because I get motion-sick; people-watching on the Metro, in general, is not particularly interesting; I can't look out the window at the scenery because the Metro is underground; and listening to stuff on earbuds makes me claustrophobic. Do I get bored on the Metro? Yes, I do.