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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, I see this thread has been stolen by waldorfians.   It would bring be great JOY to throw a plain wooden block at you, just so you will shut up about all the perceived problems with elementary school education. Stop reading the stupid parenting blogs and actually spend some time in a good kindergarten classroom.  No one is being tied
To their chair and forced to fill out worksheets. Good teachers in good schools let kids be kids and teach them a LOT. I suspect the real reason you want to keep your five year old
At home is that you are still breastfeeding.  [/quote]

Idiot. [/quote]

+1. I am a teacher in public schools and a PP that you refer to. You don't know how the sausage is made. All kids have to be at a specific standard at a specific time thanks to CC and ESSA. It's a tremendous amount of pressure on teachers that trickles down to kids. [/quote]

DP.  What are the relevant K standards?  I was told yesterday by a VA teacher that there is no reading goal for K. [/quote]

I am less familiar with VA, but in general all kids need to read simple 1-3 sentence per page books by the end of the year. They need 100 sight word and should be able to count and recognize numbers up to 100. You can say, "oh, well kids can do it," but  15+ years ago no one was expected to read in K or do any of that. Think of all the things they use to do that ar just not happening. This is now without consequence.[/quote]

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