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[quote=Anonymous]DD is in the middle of the pack age-wise, tall for her age, confident, bright, snarky to us but great at school. We’re coming off two years at a sweet and nurturing preschool and she’s at a FCPS with 7 Kindergarten classes, 26 kids in her class.

She went from being SO excited about going to K all summer to crying and asking not to have to go to school. She likes a lot of the activities but it’s just soooo chaotic. I go to lunch at least once a week to help because all 7 of those classes are in the cafeteria with a few overworked lunch ladies and what few parents volunteer. I was one of maybe 3 parents total today. It’s just not enough supervision for these tiny people.

Kids are bawling in their seats, crying for their moms. Two kids at our table were sick, one made herself barf to get to leave lunch. I noticed another girl not eating and burying her head. It took me awhile to get to her between helping other kids and when I finally did, she was covered with blood from a nosebleed. She hadn’t said a word and just sat there bleeding.

These kids just seem really under-supervised/nurtured for their ages. DD evidently had a choking fit the other day, threw up in the classroom bathroom, cleaned herself up, and carried on with her day with vomit in her hair and on her clothes and backpack. No one noticed and she said she didn’t want to bother anyone. She lost a tooth in the bathroom last week and was bleeding like a stuck pig (poor kid also dropped the tooth and couldn’t find it). Again, didn’t say anything and no one noticed.

I know I need to get DD to speak up. Her teacher has 26 kids to worry about and doesn’t have the bandwidth to hover, and that’s OK. I’m just not getting a warm fuzzy aboit this place, despite other parents’ glowing reviews. I don’t expect public K to be like our sweet preschool, but this just feels like Ryker’s Island Jr. We are so not in a place to afford a smaller private school but it makes me sick to my stomach to send my kid there every day. She’s five, for goodness sakes. WWYD?[/quote]

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