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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you should send your child to a school in China, if the Chinese educational experience is so great.

Do you not see how ridiculous it is to do all these extracurriculars based on memorizing and then complain 
that your child knows more and is bored??[/quote]

No, I just wonder why the schools aren't more rigorous.  Many asian parents wonder the same, and it is why they do all the educational extracurricular they do, and thats on top of having to memorize a couple thousand chinese characters. If these kids are able to do this kind of work, why does the school wait so long to differentiate beyond reading groups?

I'm just trying to maintain the level he was at when he finished Montessori kindergarten back in 2017, which for most kids in his class was roughly end of first grade beginning of second.

Why does it take so long to do a placement test, to figure out where the kids are?  Just boot up iready and have at it. That could have been completed this week, after 9 full days of school.

He has to bring in a baggy with things to count on monday.  They were doing (very) simple addition, at the end of last year in kindergarten!  Yesterday they learned.... the letter I!  Last year with the exception of one non-verbal  child, every kid in the class could read and write at the very least simple sentences.  I saw all the kids writing workshop stuff at an end of year presentation.

Even if I didn't send my kids elsewhere to keep up with his peers, I would still wonder why the heck this is so slow. Its not like I expect all the kids are going to go to a math kangeroo competition, but at an Oakton feeder school, most of the kids are capable of more than this.[/quote]

First, your kid is “bored” now because you’ve pretaught him the grade level material before now. What did you think would happen when you put him into sunshine Academy?  Second, you could a lot of easy things to enrich the baggie counting work. Count it by twos, threes, fours, etc. Show how tally marks work when counting by 5s, including the slash mark. If there are 12 beans, talk about division (how many would 4 people get if we divided them up easily) or fractions (how many would your best friend and you get if you each got half) or multiplication (what if we had double the number of beans)?  Or probability (add a grain of rice in and ask what’s the probability or how likely is it you’d pick the rice versus a bean out of a sock?[/quote]

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