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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is not failure to differentiate in K and a lack of bespoke accelerated educations for children of strivers; that has never been a part of public school. For decades, reading wasn't even taught in K - it began in 1st. Even the "good" parents were not supplementing outside of doing some bedtime reading.

As for rigor in the curriculum - many of the grade level standards for math, reading, writing, etc. have been pushed downwards even though they are not appropriate (for kids as a whole), and standards have only become more rigorous over time. But that leaves many to fall behind early in elementary school, and there are never opportunities to catch up.

The proliferation of devices at home and in school has been such a disaster.

The old studies about Head Start -comparing results for poor children who got into Head Start vs those who didn't attend preschool - also make me wonder if increasingly "rigorous" preschools are countereffective down the road, since children lose out on so much other developmentally appropriate activity (social skills, motor skills, problem solving, etc.)[/quote]

But preschool and kindergarten - second grade are pretty different learning windows.  And kindergarteners are sitting in a classroom for hours everyday.  Why shouldn't kids be placed in groups so that everyone learns something from instruction time?  [b]What is the value in making kids who can already read sit in a kindergarten class and listen to a teacher teach the alphabet or basic phonics? [/b] [/quote]

My kid was ready to sit in a K class and listen to a teacher. She wasn't ready to read. The lesson she learned from K was that she couldn't read and her friends could. [/quote]

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