Reply to 1st grade is a bad as we suspected

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "1st grade is a bad as we suspected "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry pressed submit too soon kids learn things at different ages and in some European countries kids wouldn't start formal education until 6/7 anyway. So I'm not super stressed out with my child is arbitrarily behind in some skills and ahead in others when I know that she is still working hard and improving I think the bigger impact on the pandemic has been just the social emotional regulation. I think that students are still really struggling in that domain and I think the impact of the pandemic is going to be felt for years to come [/quote]

People on DCUM love to say that kids in Europe don’t start formal education until 6 or 7 but this is really misleading. Even in the countries like Finland where this may be true, the kids are starting school having been taught to read by their parents at home. So it’s not like the US where a lot of kids are watching TV or playing video games all day while their parents are drunk or high. And, more importantly, those kids in Europe are actually being raised by their parents and not the government. They can sit quietly, follow directions, and they know not to throw a tantrum in school.

The impact of a year of school closures will certainly be felt for years to come though, you’re right about that.[/quote]
WTAF?! You think there are no bad parents in Europe? And that in the US there are only crazy helicopter parents or neglectful druggies...nothing in between? You sound nuts.[/quote]

I am from Germany, and it is not true that the parents generally teach the kids to read at home before first grade. Some may certainly do that, but it is not common practice, nor is it expected when the kids enter school. Also, since they care is subsidized and very cheap, a lot of kids are actually attending daycare starting around each one.

Oh, and regarding the impact of the Covid school closures - I was talking to some school social workers in Germany last fall, who said that they were seeing a lot of behavioral and social-emotional problems in the kids, which they attributed to their social isolation while schools were closed. And that was after a closure of only a few months before summer 2020! So there shouldn’t be any surprise that it is much, much worse here. Kids have really gotten screwed in this area.[/quote]

*daycare not they care
*age one not each one

Sorry, need to proofread speech to text better![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics