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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] She's already being given extra work and helping out here peers, but at some point will likely become bored which leads to trouble....

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I'm curious, what grade is your child in at Tyler? I was thinking she was in Pre-S or Pre-K and if that's the case, I'm wondering about the kind of "extra work" is she getting? I strongly believe (and, as evidenced by another thread on this board most other parents agree) that early education programs for children should be play-based and not overly academic. My four year old is in Pre-K at a highly regarded school that is play-based, and I just can't see his teacher telling me that my son was given extra work or asked to help his peers in order to not be bored. Rather, when I visit the classroom, I see the wide breadth of work that the children are encouraged to do. Some children may spend less time and give less attention to their drawings and creations than other "more advanced" children do. Rather then have a child bored because they are given a finite task that they find easy to complete, all children in my son's class have lots of materials to create with and are always encouraged to make more observations and add more detail to whatever is is they are doing -- playing with blocks, drawing in their journals, working with math manipulatives, etc.

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