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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our average kindergarten son started in a good MoCo public kindergarten this past fall, but we moved him to a private school after one semester.  Why?  Because he couldn't eat lunch in 12 minutes flat, he couldn't wait for hours (!) to use the bathroom, and he was physically attacked by another child in his class, several times.  (The other child had serious developmental delays, really couldn't be blamed for his actions, and seriously needed extra adult help in the classroom - but the public school couldn't afford that, so our kid and other kids suffered.)  I was so sad to see my previously happy-about-school son turn into an afraid-to-go-to-school, hungry, pants-wetting son.  It's impossible for kids to learn when their basic needs and safety aren't taken care of.

The spring semester has been SO positive by comparison, at a private school where there is time for lunch, bathroom breaks, recess, music, art, P.E., and enough adults to give needed attention to behavior problems.

I know that the fit of the child with the school is important, but really, how many 5-year-olds "fit" into such inhumane environments?

-private school teacher and parent
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While this does seem like an extreme example of what can go wrong in a public kindergarten, these are some of the things we were concerned with when choosing to go the private route.  At our MoCo public elementary, lunch is 30 minutes, but this includes the time it takes to go through the lunch line.  Considering that there are 9 classes of about 27 K students who eat lunch at the same time, I'm sure getting through the lunch line and settled into your seat can take up half (or more) of lunch.  There is also only one 30 minute recess a day and they stay in the class if the weather is bad.  Current parents tell me that the weather is deemed bad more days than not in the winter.  There is also only 1 teacher per class with an average of 27 students.  PE is only once a week, as are art and music.  I'm sure there are kids who can thrive in the public school environment, but we didn't think ours was one of them.  [/quote]

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