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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine has a K boy with an August bday and she recently told me he's having a lot of trouble and she may have to have him repeat K. He had been in highly regarded, 3-day-a-week preK program in Bethesda and knew his letters but not his letter sounds and did not know how to write more than his name.

My friend thought her son would be okay given that many people told her that it's normal for entering kindergarteners to be in this stage of pre-reading/writing. Well it apparently wasn't normal at his school and she said she got called in a few weeks into the school year by the teacher who told her her son was really far behind. The situation has been terrible for her son's self-esteem.

I'm not saying you should hold back your son, OP, but that it might be helpful to look at the demographics/abilities of the K students in your home school before making a decision. It really varies a great deal in MCPS. [/quote]

This is really awful. I feel like some schools want the children in KG to already know what they are supposed to learn in KG. [/quote]

This is the MCPS link regarding Kindergarten Readiness.

It actively encourages parents to teach their kids phonics.  
E.g.  Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag.  Have your child pull out a paper from the bag and say the name of the letter and the sound that it represents.  Then have him/her say a word that begins with the same sound.

It's public information - what the county would like parents to do with their kids to get them ready.

PPs anecdote is ridiculous.  It makes people think 'hey, I should redshirt my little boy so his self-esteem won't suffer'.  When, in reality, this boy's mom just didn't do enough to help him get ready for K.

Unless, of course, there is a learning disability, which is a completely different issue.  But, the PP doesn't mention a LD diagnosis, so I'm going on the assumption that this little boy did NOT have a LD.[/quote]

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