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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No textbooks, and we did have some "homework" eventually - a packet that was sent home on Fridays to be returned the following Thursday or Friday - one page of ELA and one page of math concepts a day, usually.  But the truth was I never had any idea where she was with her learning or whether she was on track.  And even at the PT conferences it was not clear at all - I'd hear "oh, she got a 576 on I-ready" but that means . . . nothing to me?  And when I asked what she needed to work on the teacher would pull up the test and go to look at the questions she got wrong and say "Oh, we haven't gotten to that yet, we haven't covered this yet" so I'm not sure WTF the testing was even supposed to be covering since it's not what they've learned?

My advice as a parent of a now-rising 1st grader - work on reading, writing, and math basics at home.  This is all stuff you can teach your kid and if you wait for the teacher to tell you where your kid is falling behind you'll probably be disappointed.  I was shocked by both 1) how little reading progress DD made in Kindergarten, and 2) how few weeks it took me this summer to get her from a handful of sight words to staying up late reading chapter books by herself.  Her teacher sucked but luckily it wasn't a statistics or calculus teacher.  I can still teach whatever she needs to learn at age 5.[/quote]

A lot of people here claim that their children learn nothing in elementary school, no basics.   I’ve only seen that at poorly performing schools that are overcrowded and underfunded.   Your typical school is not like that and schools with large budgets in wealthy towns are doing fine.

I’m don’t understand how your kid only had some sight words if you have been reading to her all along.  Or maybe something clicked this summer and it came together for her.   It can’t be that every kindergarten is failing.

If you think your child isn’t where he should be then ask questions.   [/quote]

I have a child at a top performing wealthy public school and can confirm they spent lots of time on screens and don’t learn much at school apart from socialization and apps. They watch movies all the time and it’s all special events like assemblies and party days with no written work I’ve seen at home. It’s all on screens and they drag and click answers or play math games on IXL. I didn’t know this until 1st grade, but it turns out everyone goes to Kumon / tutoring / supplements at home. [/quote]

You do NOT have to do the Kumon thing to have a kid do well in school.  That is just competitive parenting and anxiety.[/quote]

There are alternatives to using an after school center.  Many parents will supplement/reinforce at home.  We supplement at home, using the Kumon workbooks from Barnes & Noble.  That said, it is not an accident that many local suburbs do have Mathnasium, RSM, AoPS, and Kumon centers. Those businesses would not survive if they did not have customers.[/quote]

well, that is a little obvious.   But you really don’t have to do that unless you are incapable of doing it yourself.   It isn’t rocket science in the early grades. Parents just want to outsource what used to be considered parenting.  Those companies want to make money, so they (and parent peer pressure) make you think you need to, but if your kid is average to smart, it is really easy to reinforce at home.

Here is another news flash: those for profit schools want your money and will act like your kid needs more help and that the schools aren’t doing a good job so they can get your money.

I”m a fan of school homework. I had kids at 2 different elementary schools in the area. One gave homework, one didn’t so I supplemented.

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That is a lie. This is not outsourcing what every parent was expected to do. My parents never taught me to read, or do arithmetic. They didn’t need too. It was taught at school along with spelling, vocabulary, cursive, and all kinds of other things that are not being fully taught (if at all!) at even the well funded elementary schools. [/quote]

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