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[quote=Anonymous]I sent my son to Kumon at 4. He was in a play based preschool which we loved but I also wanted him to be prepared for K. So I taught him reading with 100 Easy Lessons  and for math he did Kumon starting one year before K so he was 4 years and 8 months old.

I laughed when the Kumon director told me he was behind since a lot if families start at 3. We were the only Latino preschool aged family. Almost all of the other preschool aged students were Asian and a couple seemed Eastern European. The director handed us 5 pages of homework but when I saw she gave the Asian families 10 pages per day I said I wanted the same amount (you pay the same price regardless of how many pages you get). A year later my son was doing great in math and was good in word problems I think from all the creative play at his preschool. Yet when he started K he wasn’t put  into the highest math group and wasn’t given the extra math enrichment challenge homework.. An Asian parent asked me why my son wasn’t with all the other Kumon kids in that group because she knew he was on the same level as her kid (Kumon letters go by letters so you can easily tell what level kids are at). I went to speak to the teacher and she said he met the k math standards but didn’t think to keep testing him. She just assumed he wasn’t advanced. So she worked with him one in one the next day for a few minutes then called and said she had been mistaken and of course he should be in the highest group. And wasn’t it so great he was so high in math. And what a surprise it was. It was so infuriating.[/quote]

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