I had the same experience with my son in Kindergarden...in 1975! I was told that year was for “SOCIALIZATION”....from then on I was a very leary Young mother when it came to “education.”
This is not new. Harper Lee touched on it in “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Scout went to first grade knowing how to read. Unfortunately, she didn’t know how to read “the right way.” That whole subplot disturbed me as much as the racism.
Believe it or not, in 1951 I "tested out" of kindergarten.I remember one question on the test. It was a picture of a girl holding a purse. The question was, which hand is the purse in, her right or her left.
You had to know which side was right, then turn it around because the girl was facing you.
Anyway, I started first grade a year early.
its funny but the same thing happened to my aspergers dtr....she could read in kindergarten but the teacher wanted the kids to do other things....whatever that was....this teacher was also the one who wrote on my dtrs very first paper in bold letters “VERY MESSY” in red....