Anonymous wrote:Our kindergarten teacher..."hey! your kid is really good at math! To be clear, I'm going to give him extra grade level work, not above grade level work."

Us: "Ok."

What school was this? Why would they not want kids to advance?

Our kindergarten teacher..."hey! your kid is really good at math! To be clear, I'm going to give him extra grade level work, not above grade level work."

Us: "Ok."

Anonymous wrote:Send your kid to one of the Immersion schools. Then she'll be doing math in Spanish, so she'll need to learn an entirely new vocabulary during math class. It's a great cure for "my kid already knows this".

Hahha. They are learning to count to ten not hundred because it’s in a foreign language. They learn to count to 100 in like third grade. And then you can drop out of the program like everyone else when you realize your genius mathematician can’t meet basic on grade level math.

Send your kid to one of the Immersion schools. Then she'll be doing math in Spanish, so she'll need to learn an entirely new vocabulary during math class. It's a great cure for "my kid already knows this".

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.

Yes. My biggest complaint is that I spent five years trying to keep them off screens, only for them to be handed a screen in the classroom because they can count to 100 and the curriculum does not call for anything else in K.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.

+1


But also, I will say, most of the APS N Arlington parents think their kindergarteners are advanced at [insert academic topic], so don’t worry poster, they won’t be alone in their kindergarten classroom filled with the best and brightest.

To be fair, many N Arlington kindergartners ARE advanced because they’ve grown up in literacy rich environments with parents who help them learn about the world. When normed against local peers, my child scores in a lower percentile compared to when scores are normed nationally.

I agree that worrying about advanced kindergarten math is probably uncalled for, but I also get tired of the eye rolling about N Arlington parents all thinking their kids are above average. On a national, statistical basis, they all may be.

Lady, you’ll find this out in 13 years, but being special here doesn’t mean squat. I mean, colleges will only take a certain number of kids from Arlington [and the same overeducated families in Falls Church, Fairfax, MoCo, etc.]. So the fact that we are smart here compared to the national trend won’t actually mean diddly squat unless your kiddo is planning to move to Alaska to be a professor in mathematics where they truly will be the smartest. All anyone cares about is their peer group and this idiot poster thinks they’ve got some genius kiddo on their hands when lo and behold welcome to the big leagues where where every family in North (oh, don’t want to leave you out too and South) Arlington whose parents also attended an ivy (ok, maybe not for undergrad but definitely for some grad program like the education school at Columbia or divinity school at Yale) thinks their child has some gift. It’s a rude awakening when you come from Ohio and were all fancy at your local high school to come here where education is the currency. And there is always a kid smarter than yours.

Your kid may not actually be at 2nd grade level, also even if they are, a lot of kids in APS are above grade level. And coming in above grade isn’t the same thing as being gifted. So sit tight OP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.

+1


But also, I will say, most of the APS N Arlington parents think their kindergarteners are advanced at [insert academic topic], so don’t worry poster, they won’t be alone in their kindergarten classroom filled with the best and brightest.

To be fair, many N Arlington kindergartners ARE advanced because they’ve grown up in literacy rich environments with parents who help them learn about the world. When normed against local peers, my child scores in a lower percentile compared to when scores are normed nationally.

I agree that worrying about advanced kindergarten math is probably uncalled for, but I also get tired of the eye rolling about N Arlington parents all thinking their kids are above average. On a national, statistical basis, they all may be.

Plenty of S Arlington parents feel the same way (including me🤣)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.

+1


But also, I will say, most of the APS N Arlington parents think their kindergarteners are advanced at [insert academic topic], so don’t worry poster, they won’t be alone in their kindergarten classroom filled with the best and brightest.

To be fair, many N Arlington kindergartners ARE advanced because they’ve grown up in literacy rich environments with parents who help them learn about the world. When normed against local peers, my child scores in a lower percentile compared to when scores are normed nationally.

I agree that worrying about advanced kindergarten math is probably uncalled for, but I also get tired of the eye rolling about N Arlington parents all thinking their kids are above average. On a national, statistical basis, they all may be.

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to Lake Wobegone, where all of the children are above average.

Love this

Hahaha. Ha.

Look into homeschooling

Welcome to Lake Wobegone, where all of the children are above average.

Anonymous wrote:Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.

+1


But also, I will say, most of the APS N Arlington parents think their kindergarteners are advanced at [insert academic topic], so don’t worry poster, they won’t be alone in their kindergarten classroom filled with the best and brightest.

My fave question for parents like you - right random two digit numbers on a piece of paper like 35, 77, 52, etc and then ask your kid to tell you the numbers without your assistance. Now you know your kid doesn’t 2nd grade math skills. Because those workbooks you buy or that app you use is lying to you and wants you to buy more stuff

She is not going to be bored in kindergarten!!