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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  There are lots of kids in my D's kindergarten who can recite multiplication tables but who have no idea what it means.  If your kid does Kumon, there is an activity where they get points for reciting multiplication tables and there is no requirement that the child have any actual understanding of numbers.

In my kid's kindergarten class, on the free writing exercise on Mondays, there are kids whose parents have taught them three specific sentences and who have spent the weekend practicing those sentences.  It defeats the point of the exercise which is for kids to sound out words and try to write them down, to struggle a bit, etc.

The problem is with parents who don't agree with the philosophy and pedagogical goals of certain exercises.  Their kids do ruin it for everyone else.  A lot of exercises in elementary school are based on the constructivist educational philosophy which emphasizes that kids learn concepts through applying them, working with them, struggling with them a bit.  When parents pre-teach the material, have kids practice it over the weekend, etc. then that environment in which everyone is experimenting and working with the material is changed.  
I can't imagine how challenging it would be to be a teacher in that kind of classroom environment.  It would throw off the timing of everything you had planned for the classroom for that day, would throw off the group dynamics, etc. 
  [/quote]  Yes, there has to be differentiation.  I'm betting that it is a very rare instance where the kid lacks the underlying knowledge.  It sounds like the other kids are just more advanced than yours.[/quote]

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