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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parents with highly able kids struggle with this.  A friend tried adamantly to skip K but teachers/admin refused.  My DC was highly gifted in math (taught himself to multiply and divide fluently in K). But there was nothing short of homeschooling that we could have done.  He’s in 4th now and was bored in math throughout but now is at least enjoying the faster paced compacted math.  It’s really not fair that these kids have to go through the same curriculum as their slower counterparts.  It’s almost as we’re punished for teaching our kids to read before K.  But I’ve always hated this aspect about public school.  Everyone has to learn at the same pace.  Admin says the slower kids catch up, sure but at the expense of the rest of the kids not learning anything for several years. 
I heard of this charter school in DC where kids learn on their own via videos that they can pause and repeat if needed and have small group discussions with the teacher.  Sounds like that is the way to go.  Sorry OP, join the club[/quote]
Why was it so important to teach him to read before he got to K? Do you know a lot about child development? [/quote]

I don't think parents should push reading on kids before K, but there is a not insubstantial group of kids who either teach themselves to read before K or who are interested and find it enjoyable to learn/be taught before K.  So it's not "so important" but it is something that some kids enjoy and there is nothing wrong with encouraging and/or helping that group of kids along, even if it doesn't line up exactly with school expectations.  I have one kid who taught herself to read at 3-4 years old, and another who didn't read at all before K and is just now becoming a fluent enough reader to actually enjoy it in 2nd grade.  It's fine either way.  Also, my early reader was not bored or unchallenged in the early grades in MCPS.  She was given appropriate reading options and time for her writing skills to catch up to her reading.  Math is more of an issue because the kids who get it quickly and easily really are bored bored bored and start to think math is inherently boring.  This may be changing some with the higher grades of Eureka.  My 2nd grader has found Eureka more challenging than 2.0.[/quote]

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