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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1st graders don't need to know how to ties their shoes. They also don't need to know how to read- they are not getting a job any time soon, or go somewhere without a grown-up. 
1st graders should be in a daycare setting where they pay from 8 to 6 pm and socialize.
There is not benefit pushing all this crap on young children. They will never be 5-7 again and get the pay time back that as taken from them to learn A,B,C's and now tying shoes.[/quote]

This is true. Parents have applied so much pressure in the mistaken belief that their kids will get ahead if they are pushed early. Studies show it all levels out for the kids by 3rd or 4th grade. There was a group who pushed the belief that the "plasticity" of the brain is lost at an early age and this led everyone to assume cramming kids with as much info as possible as young as possible was important or their brain capacity would be lost. It was all crap. Those of us with adult kids know this. [/quote]

Developmental neuroplasticity is real.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_plasticity[/quote]

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