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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had taught my son that kindergarten is SCHOOL and that means you have to sit still and do work that is sometimes not that exciting. And even when you're done with that work, you can't just get up and play like you did in preschool. We're only one month into K and I'm hearing, "But it's so boring!" I'm like, "Welcome to the rest of your life, kid!"
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Dang, that's sad PP. School should not be boring, nor should your life. Time to make changes, I'd say. [/quote]
Really? Haven't you sat through a million meetings that bored you to tears? School is not playtime. And our Arlington kindergarten is DEFINITELY more work, work, work than play. [/quote]

We're still drilling this in for DS in third grade -- the work load picks up substantially and all DS wants to do is go play.  On the one hand, I don't blame him a bit.  On the other hand, as we've already told him, in life not everything is fun and not everything is play.  Some things take a long time to do and other things come easily.

DS is one of those kids who has always resisted drilling.  He went into K not knowing a lot of things kids his age knew (he could write his name and knew some letters, but resisted efforts to teach him more).  He manages and his learning has picked up in the last year but he's not one of the kids we read about on DCUM who's dying to do more work.[/quote]

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