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Almost everybody wants their children to learn.

Learning includes non-academic knowledge, experience, and skills -- don't you agree?[/quote]

Absolutely.  But he can do that at home, no reason to have to sit in a classroom for 6-1/2hrs a day to do that.  [/quote]

If that is your belief, then I recommend home-schooling, if you can make it work for you. I mean that with all sincerity.[/quote]

Unfortunately we can't.  Will be giving public school a shot, and see how it goes.  If it's a match made in heaven for him, then public it is.  If not, private is in our future.

I don't think my child is a special snowflake.  I don't think your's is either.  I just find it unacceptable that it's become acceptable to say simply that some kids will be stuck in review-mode for the better part of a year.  I find it unacceptable that I spend my tax dollars and send my child to school expecting him to learn and am told that I'm setting the bar too high and should homeschool.  Academic learning.  Readin', writin', 'rithmetic.  It shouldn't be okay with any of us.

I'm not saying it's the fault of the teachers.  They work hard, and work with what they're given.  But our system is seriously flawed and broken, and I am truly and probably naively bothered that I'm being told that my child will just have to be patient while the teacher focuses on teaching a chunk of the class the alphabet and how to sit quietly for storytime.
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