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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll go first. We spent $30k for my son to attend a private Kindergarten that helped him excel during the first Covid year.

We also bought a home at the top of our price range to ensure he is in the best public school district for elementary school.

Your turn! It doesn’t have to be education related.[/quote]

Wow!  Excelling in kindergarten!  Now that’s something to brag about. [/quote]

When public schools were closed, he learned to read.[/quote]

40 years ago majority of kids started kindergarten knowing how to read. Parents weren’t lazy and prioritized family over money. You didn’t reinvent the wheel, you just parented.[/quote]

Disagree, strongly.

My grandmother's era (70ish years ago), kindergarten didn't exist in a lot of places.  When it did, it was focused on social skills and teaching what we consider preschool academics now.  Kids learned to read in first grade (yes, my grandmother the hoarder has proof of her work and classmates').  My mother's era (50ish years ago), kindergarten was everywhere but not required, and it was still focused on social skills and preschool level academics... my grandmother was hired without a degree (school paid for her to take three community college classes) to teach Perception, the precursor to today's PE.  My era (30ish years ago) had requirements for attending kindergarten in some areas, but it was still half day, and while some schools did three groupings for kids based on abilities coming in (mine did, and kids varied from not knowing the alphabet up to reading chapter books), others did not; that was also at the height of gifted and talented programs nationwide.  Now?  It's incredibly hard to find g&e programs, getting an IEP that actually works for the child is hard, teachers teach just to the middle, and kids are in full day kindergarten and expected to read if not before they start, at least by the time they get out.

Some kids are ready to read at 4.  Others won't have it click until 7-8, no matter what is done.  That's why Montessori allows children to work at their own pace.  It's why Waldorf doesn't teach reading until all the children should be ready.  It's why most research says not to focus on whether a child can read (and not to pressure them!) until 7-8.[/quote]

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