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You make good points but sadly its not everyone's experience. Our K teacher stuck my DD on a computer every time she finished the work early. Or she let her read stories to the other kids (now this I grant, was fun for her)but its hardly making sure she was challenged. [b]There was no real challenge for that entire year[/b].[/quote]

She was 5 (or 6). There are plenty of other ways to get challenge into a child's life, in school and out of school.[/quote]

Posting a banal platitude isn't helpful. Have you read the thread at all?[/quote]

Yes. Now, how is this a banal platitude?

Also, what do you think are the long-term effects of lack of academic challenge in kindergarten?[/quote]

The long term effect is that the US will continue to rank lower than 20 other countries around the world in terms of overall academic ability. This is a new thing. It wasn't a problem in the 1980s. Its directly related to idea that play is learning and then suspending children in a primarily play environment for far longer than necessary. Its soft. Its wrong.

In the UK for instance, school starts age 4 and children are taught to read and write. The immediate effect of this is you have many 6 year olds having read many of the Harry Potter books, increasing their ability to focus, as well as their vocabulary and therefore advancing them academically and analytically. In the US because reading is really only taken seriously from about the middle of 1st grade onwards, the children here are reading equally challenging books when they are several years older. 9 and 10 year olds for the most part.

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