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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it weird that parents on dcum will do a LOT for their children's education however some of the same people won't work with their kids to get them K ready and just wait an extra year. [/quote]

Getting ready for K can mean sitting for long stretches of time silently, listening to prolonged instruction and having limited/hardly any free play. This isn’t what Kindergarten ever was and kids haven’t changed but K has. On the first day at our school kindergarteners were asked to write a sentence about their summer. I am sure lots of people will respond how their 4 year old loves writing sentences, but most kids can’t do that before K and they shouldn’t be. Kids felt confused and bad that they couldn’t do it. Not a great first experience to school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/04/06/in-massachusetts-a-disturbing-trend-in-kindergarten/
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Yes, it was how K always was.  You are idealizing it in your mind and preschools need to do a better job preparing kids as parents are not.[/quote]

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