The real issue isn’t lack of acceleration in APS. It’s lack of instruction that’s on grade level.

Everything’s watered down to make sure no one feels bad.

Can’t everyone agree that we need an educated workforce? Military recruiters complain that HS graduates don’t have the basic skills necessary to join our armed forces. And if that’s the case, are HS graduates ready for other types of employment?

Isn’t this a huge problem?!

Other countries mock us for lacking basic knowledge. They’re right, and it’s only getting worse.

Anonymous wrote:I'm just here to laugh at "accelerated math" in K. Honestly.

Clearly it’s their first/only child.

I'm just here to laugh at "accelerated math" in K. Honestly.

OP, we are in a similar position and I’m also worried about boredom in K. I don’t have any real advice as to APS, but wanted to chime in to say your child might enjoy the Beast Academy books. I don’t try to do a lot of formal teaching at home, but DD loves these.

There is more to Kindergarten than math. She's fine and won't fall behind her own abilities. Its not a race. Now focus on non-math stuff for a while.

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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.

Well, my older immersion kid never had math in English before middle school & scored very well on all the assessments… aced geometry in 8th grade. Younger kid still in immersion elementary also scores very well on math tests (in English & Spanish).

They don’t “only learn to count to 10 because it’s a foreign language.” They do the exact same math curriculum as any APS ES, just in Spanish.

I swear, some posters here will use any opportunity to belittle the immersion program. It’s kind of pathetic.

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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?

Usually they'll do extension activities that reinforce the grade level standard instead of moving on to new material. For example, in K, my daughter designed a board game to teach math facts. In 1st, my daughter wrote word problems using the math being taught to challenge her friends. None of it is the next grade level standards, but is something other than doing worksheets on things they already know.

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Anonymous wrote: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

OP here. My kid knows numbers into the tens of thousands just by looking at them...

Congratulations.

Can someone please tell me who the OP is so I can go slap him/her in the mouth?

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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?

APS does not have a great gifted set up. I have talked to tons of parents at many schools and it's probably the one thing they all agree on. It's a mixture of: "I don't understand the gifted program, but I know it's not good". Supposedly the teacher can group kids by where they are and assign them more challenging problems that still center around the same concept. For example, if they are reviewing fractions, then the kids who are further ahead will do more fraction problems. But they will not teach anything outside the curriculum. So if your child has mastered fractions, but that's what's on the curriculum, then fractions it is. It almost sounds like busy work to me. The teacher in our Parent Teacher meeting said as much to us this year - your child will not learn any material. They know it, they will review it, but I am not allowed to teach them more than what they already know.

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

All of them in APS. It makes some sense because otherwise you’ll have each teacher responsible for 3-4 different grade levels of content. That’s not a reasonable ask. Since we don’t separate kids into tracks they follow the standards for each grade.

Grouping kids by ability is a big no-no when it comes to equity.

Though China, our greatest national security threat, still does. The US is going to be in for a rude awakening one day.

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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?

All of them in APS. It makes some sense because otherwise you’ll have each teacher responsible for 3-4 different grade levels of content. That’s not a reasonable ask. Since we don’t separate kids into tracks they follow the standards for each grade.

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Anonymous wrote: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

OP here. Poster, please learn the correct usage of "right vs write." My kid knows numbers into the tens of thousands just by looking at them...

Not the person you’re responding to.

OP, if you want to keep your child ahead, you’re going to have to supplement at home. (And pray that sitting at a desk for hours on end doesn’t destroy their love of learning.)

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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?

Equity

Anonymous wrote: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

OP here. Poster, please learn the correct usage of "right vs write." My kid knows numbers into the tens of thousands just by looking at them...