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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry OP, but I gotta ask:  your kid is “miserable” in kindergarten and you’re blaming the school?  That’s a lot to pin on a school.  [/quote]

Disagree. Lots of bad Ks out there--age-inappropriate expetactions, yelling teachers, kids with scary behaviors, etc. [/quote]

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OP here and thank you. I don't just "blame the school" but yes -- it has been a rough year because there is very little joy in that classroom, lots of behavioral issues which leads to very strict rules and tons of class "punishments" that just suck all the pleasure out of what should actually not be a horrible chore (learning reading and other useful, basic skills in a classroom of peers). My kid is a happy kid generally but regularly says she hates school and doesn't want to go. She'll come home after school and I'll ask what the best and worst parts of her day were, and she often struggles to come up with a best. Often it's something like "when something bad happened, I didn't get too disappointed like I did last time." It's really hard to hear. She also complains about stuff a lot and while some of it is normal kid complaints where I'm like "that's just how life is" some of them are things that I actually do think are dumb rules that don't make sense. Like they regularly punish the kids by not letting them go out for recess. These kids are 5/6 years old and they are in a classroom all day. They need to run around. It is cutting off your nose to spite your face to use the small amount of free play/outdoor time they are allocated as a tool for punishment. It's just going to result in more bad behavior.

So yeah, I'm not enthusiastic about staying at this school another year. Maybe next year's teacher will be better.[/quote]

I'm who you quoted and I wonder if you are at the charter we were at. There are a lot of similarities. We gave 2 years to a charter before we decided to pull out because my child was miserable. It just wasn't the right fit at all and things like taking away recess for punishment is the straw that broke the camel's back. We even brought our concerns to the teachers and leadership, but then leadership changed. My son was 3 and 4 at the time and we were also hearing I hate school often. Definitely isn't the impression I wanted left on him when, at his age, school is only supposed to be something to look forward to. [/quote]

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