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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with allowing kids to go early is that there are some parents who will send kids who are not yet ready but the parents want free child care. [b]The level of the curriculum today is such that most 4 year olds will not be ready[/b].[/quote]

I don't know where you are sending your kids that it is so challenging.  In my kids FCPS (we have about 11% FARMS), the kindergarten curriculum starts at ground ZERO.  They expect very little and they move them slowly forward from there.  While many kids go to preschool, the kinder. curriculum in my opinion (experience with 2 kids going through it), is that they don't expect that kids have had preschool.  It's very gentle, although they eventually are expected to write a sentence and to begin reading common/simple words by the end of kindergarten.

And yes, I do think Kinder is appropriate for kids who are almost 5 or who are already 5.  My son was 5 and 1 mo. when he started.  It was not overwhelming or overly challenging.[/quote]

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