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[quote=Anonymous]First, you can always stay put, but send your child to a private kindergarten, if you have the means. You should definitely talk to parents in your neighborhood and ask about their experiences with kindergarten at your school.

I have three kids who went to FCPS kindergartens, at three different schools. The worst one actually had half-day kindergarten. The teachers have a lot of academics to fit into the day, and half-day isn't enough, because there's a lot of time taken up with "cat herding" in kindergarten. The half-day kindergarten ends up being the worst in terms of having to skip recess time and stressing the kids by forcing them to sit a lot to get the academics covered. They skip the fun stations/centers where they'd otherwise get learn-by-play time, too.

If you have a child who's already reading, writing, adding and subtracting, or picks those things up quickly, FCPS kindergarten is incredibly boring for them, because they sit around a lot doing busy work while the teachers work with others. There are lots of normal developmental variations in where everyone is with the academics at this age, so kindergarten teachers have their hands full.[/quote]

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