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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact remains that most kids finish kindergarten without tutors, struggling, repeating K, or redshirting. So it can’t be that hard.[/quote]

I’ve actually noticed a few Kindergarteners in my Kindergartener’s class that are repeating from last year as we saw them in Kindergarten in my 4th grader’s yearbook from last year. Kindergarten certainly has not been a breeze for my kid , either, and it’s only been a month , and she’s one of the oldest in the class, just missing the cut off by a week. I know the kids younger than her may be struggling even more. [/quote]

Doubtful. Most K’s at this point in the year are barely past letter names and sounds. If your child learned these in preschool it shouldn’t be an issue.[/quote]

Doubtful that the other kids are struggling or that there is 3 kids repeating? This was my post and my kid goes to a public school in MD and this is what my 17 year old was doing in K but no that is not what his sister is doing now. She knew all of her letters and sounds. She’s expected to write “stories” with correct punctuation. She’ll constantly ask me, “Is this right? Is this where I’m supposed to put a period or do I use a comma?” She comes home with sight words and little books to read. She’s currently supposed to be researching and dressing up as a character and writing and delivering a speech in a couple weeks. She also spends most of her day at a desk except for when they’re walking to specials classes. The times I’ve volunteered they’re constantly telling the little boys,” stop  kicking your feet under the desk” , “ stop hitting your pencil on the desk” , “quit doing that with your hands.” Then making them sit in the hall. These kids are bored and fidgety at their desks,  my kid is very shy and a rule follower so she’s not doing these things but I imagine she feels like it. [/quote]

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