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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5yo can't tie his shoes and I couldn't care less. He has been in school in person the whole time. Neither school nor we have taught him this particular skill yet, and I fail to see why that matters. He can do lots of other things and we'll get to this one when it becomes relevant.[/quote]

It doesn’t matter — as long as the shoes that he wears to school don’t need to be tied.  I’m not a teacher, but like many teachers, I’ve tied a lot of shoes and taught many kids how to do this for themselves.  The issue is sending kids to school with shoes that need to be tied, with the expectation that teachers will tie them for the kids who don’t know how, or will somehow find time in their crammed schedules to teach individual students life skills that are typically learned and practiced at home.

As the ECE curriculum has become more academic, [b]the expectation is that students will have mastered age appropriate life skills and readiness skills so that the classroom focus can be on academic skills.[/b]  [/quote]

This. The academic weight on ES kids are higher now than they were when we were kids. The expectations that they can sit and attend to tasks with only a 20 minute recess and PE once a week (our school) all day long and on computers and with homework is not what my parents had to deal with when I was a kid.

Are parents more lazy or are they trying to remember long division to help their 3rd grader with the nightly homework?[/quote]

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