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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did we not just start the school year?  My DD is in K and there have been no awards given.  How would they even know who to give awards to at this point.  Op you can't handle the competition and you are the one creating the competition![/quote]

OP here.  Yes, just started. And awards in K is ridiculous.  WTF?  So you see the kids just started and they're already creating competition and segregating kids into the good ones and bad ones.  I know there is at least one "bad" boy in class who is in time-out all the time.  So we just started and there are already the teacher's favorites and teacher's least favorites.

And EVERYTHING is about behavior. All the criticism and praise are about behavior, nothing else. They get stickers and gifts for good behavior, reprimanded for any minor thing, talking at lunch break, for example.  Again, WTF?  Reward them for being curious, for trying hard, for being creative, for meaningful things, not for holding their hands behind their backs.
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Yes, it is more about behavior and social skills in K then it is about academics.

[b]This is why so many parents dislike K because it's their child's first time in school and their child is essentially not brilliant at it. It's the parents realization that their kid is not perfect and that even though little Larla can recite the multiplication tables -in French and Mandarin as well as English - that little Larla actually does need K and needs to learn quite a bit before 1st grade. [/b]

My child is in 4th. I don't know any parent who looks back now and says they wish their kid had skipped K. They all now realize that their child did learn a lot and needed to learn and what they learned wasn't necessarily academic.[/quote]

And it may be the first time that someone doesn't think that[b] Everest or Fern [/b]is the most incredible little life full of wonder and spiritual joy if only he/she were allowed to express it in a way that captures their true essence.[/quote]

Lovely names, PP! :lol: 
I second your comment in its entirety. [/quote]

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