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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have very low expectations.

Our child missed the cut off date for FCPS and did kindergarden 2x.  Once at montessori, once at FCPS.

They expect zero knowledge for kindergarden.

No stroke order taught for letters and numbers in kindergarden.  Math education was sequences, no actual arthimetic until the last month of the year.  Work sheets were, sub par.

First grade so far has been a joke.  Today my kid learned..... how to read and write the letters A and C.  He is bored out of his mind.

He actually learns stuff at weekend chinese school, but the vaunted FCPS schools are a complete and utter joke by my standards.[/quote]

Your child spent a year in kindergarten and you still don't know how to spell it?
Also, Chinese should be capitalized.

Maybe, just maybe, first grade is not a joke.  This is the first week.  It is normal to expect some repetition.  This is one way teachers evaluates what a child needs to learn.

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This is the [b]second[/b] week, they're doing 2 letters a day, and started this on tuesday. The first week... they colored and did a connecting the dots. My kid complains every day about this stuff. His "math" is learning single digit numbers, not even sequencing that they did last year.

He did sunshine academy over the summer. They did a placement test the first day! Then they put kids in different groups and started on actual arthimatic, wordly wise and 40 vocab/spelling words a day.

I'm not expecting the same level out of first grade that highly motivated kids, or their parents, are going to go for during a summer program, but I wasn't expecting this either. So yes, by my standards let alone montesorri standards, this is a joke.

My wife and I aren't products of the US k-12 system, which is why we send our kids to chinese school.

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Not everyone did Sunshine Academy over the summer.[/quote]

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