Kindergarten son declares he doesn't like school "at all"

[Anonymous]

Maybe instead of asking how was school, ask him to name one good thing and one bad thing.

I'm annother late blooming reader who didn't learn to read until the summer before first grade. But I picked it up quickly and by the end of the summer I was reading frog and toad books.

I thonk the letter sounds thing on k is a function of public kindergarten where you can have a very wide rang of background knowledge and skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Sounds exactly like my daughters classroom! She came home and said that Mrs X. was really really mad today and yelling at so and so. She said she kept yelling and yelling at him and it was really loud.

I also feel that she is not being pushed for her abilities and quite frankly I am considering changing schools. This is no way a great first year for her.

It makes me sad for the kids that they aren't really happy to be there with her and have to witness such behavior.

Same story for us. I have been hesitant to change schools mid-year because I wonder if that would be more harmful but I do not think we will return next year. The experience has been horrible. Teacher is awful. Administration has not helped. I spent the first half of the year trying to remedy and now I'm pretty much just trying to wait out the year and get this over with.

[Anonymous]

My social daughter loved pre-K and loathed school--in tears--until THIRD GRADE (this year). She had to be with her friends, who were wisely separated from her during the early years because they would have distracted her (or she them). She regularly said, "I don't like school" or "I hate school" because that's what her friends said. It was heart-breaking to me, a bookworm and the child of two fine teachers. We couldn't switch schools--we had moved to be close to that public school, and jobs/routine/life depended on that.

Now, in third grade, she happily skips off to school. She has enough friends so that she feels comfortable. (She doesn't like to be or feel alone.) She struggled with reading and writing, but seems to be mastering skills at her own, turtle pace. I think she was someone who was definitely hurt by expectations of reading early--she didn't really learn to read comfortably until 2nd grade. My teacher parents said, "So what?"
Anyway, OP, I feel your pain. I hope your child's struggles are over more quickly than mine. I do think there's something to be learned in the struggle, but perhaps that's wishful thinking.