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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Preschools in Finland and much of Europe are all play based.  They do not teach letters or numbers until age 7, when children are developmentally ready to learn to read, and they learn quickly at that point.  What distinguished Finland most is the social aspects of learning.  Social development is a huge priority there, whereas here it is completely ignored.  I just heard about a study showing that classrooms that emphasized social and emotional learning had fewer behavior problems and better academic learning.  As far as math, I have heard that some high school teachers in MCPS and univ. profs say that MCPS pushes kids to be accelerated at the expense of developing a proper foundation in math.  They get kids who think they are advanced, they've been pushed to get past calculus, bla bla bla, and in fact are unprepared and have major gaps.  So acceleration may not be as great as some think it is.  [/quote]
Finland's model is a better way to go.The poor kindergartners are expected to do way too much here. As stated above, socialization is not an emphasis and it comes back to bite us pretty quickly. The big issue is that MCPS swung the pendulum so far in the direction of acceleration that it was causing major math issues in the long run, but now we are back to the other extreme where there is not enough acceleration. Unless, your child happens to have a particularly motivated teacher with a lot of time on her hands to develop the needed enrichment for the truly advanced kids.[/quote]

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