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[quote=Anonymous]The academic pendulum has swung all the way over now, hasn't it.  You do know that there is a pattern and that eventually the pendulum will swing back and academics in K will take a back seat to social and emotional and holistic development.  That's just the way it goes.

Personally, the rigorous academics in the 'mini-first grade' that kindergarten has become is the primary reason that I chose to send my child to private school.  I want him learning skills and content that are appropriate for a 5 year old in kindergarten, not a 6 year old in first grade, thank you very much.  I do not think it matters one iota whether my child learns to read sentences much less chapter books in kindergarten or first grade.  I believe that you can only push the academic skills down so far before you are making unacceptable trade offs and/or are pushing too many children past the limits of appropriate expectations for their age and developmental level.  And it has nothing to do with whether or not they are having fun in this case.  B/c I'm sure that the teachers are killing themselves trying to ensure that those little guys are having fun, regardless of how inappropriate what they are asking them to do is.

Can we please just have a normal kindergarten with story time, picture journals, songs, fingerplays, a kitchen/house area, blocks, puzzles, easels and crafts, cooking, guinea pigs and raising chicks, sink and float and magnet experiments, and some cute plays like a Kindergarten Circus?

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