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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I don't believe most K kids are bored. I bet they love their class. Their parents just want to believe they must be bored because they are super duper smart and stuck in a boring class with dumbdumbs :(

In reality those kids probably have no problems going to their kindergarten class every day while mom writes online about how it's murdering his soul to play with kids who can't read yet.[/quote]

Mmm, no.  My kid really did have problems going into kindergarten every day and never liked it.  Tears most mornings.  It was mostly boring for her.  In part, because she did already know the stuff they were teaching.  And in part because she is an introvert and therefore never really felt comfortable forcing her own way into the social scene and classroom.  And her teacher was not great at drawing her out.
Some bright kids are fine with it because they enjoy the social aspect.  Some aren't because the social aspect is sort of a negative for them anyway.  I was also that kid in elementary school, and I was bored to tears in K and never liked it.  Extremely high IQ, excelled in school, and certainly didn't lack intrinsic motivation.  Please.  But I did, and still do, have a low tolerance for stuff that bores me.  Luckily, when not in an elementary school environment, had the freedom to pursue areas of interest and wasn't required to do the boring stuff all day.
Everybody's different.  These broad sweeping statements ("only boring people are bored") are always wrong with respect to many people.[/quote]

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