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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you should send your child to a school in China, if the Chinese educational experience is so great.

Do you not see how ridiculous it is to do all these extracurriculars based on memorizing and then complain 
that your child knows more and is bored??[/quote]

No, I just wonder why the schools aren't more rigorous.  Many asian parents wonder the same, and it is why they do all the educational extracurricular they do, and thats on top of having to memorize a couple thousand chinese characters. If these kids are able to do this kind of work, why does the school wait so long to differentiate beyond reading groups?

I'm just trying to maintain the level he was at when he finished Montessori kindergarten back in 2017, which for most kids in his class was roughly end of first grade beginning of second.

Why does it take so long to do a placement test, to figure out where the kids are?  Just boot up iready and have at it. That could have been completed this week, after 9 full days of school.

He has to bring in a baggy with things to count on monday.  They were doing (very) simple addition, at the end of last year in kindergarten!  Yesterday they learned.... the letter I!  Last year with the exception of one non-verbal  child, every kid in the class could read and write at the very least simple sentences.  I saw all the kids writing workshop stuff at an end of year presentation.

Even if I didn't send my kids elsewhere to keep up with his peers, I would still wonder why the heck this is so slow. Its not like I expect all the kids are going to go to a math kangeroo competition, but at an Oakton feeder school, most of the kids are capable of more than this.[/quote]

It takes weeks for school to really get started.  That will be true throughout your child's school career.

And since kindergarten is the new 1st grade, that means that 1st grade isn't going to be much different.

There's no rush.  The kids will get there.  And they'll have plenty of time for piano lessons, playdates, learning Chinese characters, too.  That's a positive, isn't it?[/quote]

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