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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If her husband is a NIH employee, they really should not worry much about "educating" their K kid or their kid falling behind. The truth is that  K is pretty much useless educationally for kids from educated families. For them, it is mostly social/emotional (which NONE of the kids are getting right now so everyone is in the same boat). Plus whenever they return to fulltime school, the lower elementary classes are going to be mostly review anyway. Bottom line is, with a kid whose parents are college educated and work at NIH, assuming the kid is neurotypical, you can do very little for K and the kid will still be fine when they start again.[/quote]

This.

They can probably also afford a PT tutor if they really want him to learn to read this year. [/quote]

He may already know the basics of reading if he went to preschool, plus all the first grade classes (or the K classes in second semester, if we go back then) will be doing lots of review and catch up.  Truth is that most UMC kids without any learning disabilities or challenges will be fine not doing K.[/quote]

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