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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My daughter is only in K and is writing worse than preschool and getting P's on everything.[/b] She went to a play-based preschool and they did more curriculum than K does.  The bar is set so low at MCPS it is pathetic.  Must get the poor non-english speaking kids caught up.  That means your average kids get ignored.

You need to be proactive at home if you want your child to survive.  I might as well homeschool because I teach more at home in one week than the school does.  This is only 1 hour a day.  I used to think homeschooling was really strange but this public school is making me think otherwise.  I am trying to envision what they are doing with 6hrs of teaching time that my child is actually getting worse.  [/quote]

This was our experience in K last year also.  Honestly, you really have to do some work with your kid at home if you want to keep him/her appropriately challenged in the early grades.

We didn't go crazy, but I made sure to get appropriately leveled readers to keep DD reading at home.  I got some Kumon workbooks to keep things moving in math, keep her handwriting neat and get her learning new concepts.  We spent about a half hour each day - 15 minutes in the AM, 15 min in the PM.  Plus, I would always go over her HW with her and try to build on it/challenge her myself.

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