[LauraleeBraswell]

Just one more PLEASE, and then I'll stop.


"""They won't be left behind in kindergarten or first grade when things get more complicated," Chaponot said.""


Because Kindergarten is So HARD right? I just can't get those seasons in sequence, is it Spring Winter Fall Summer or Winter Spring Summer Fall? When there is a fire what do I do, wait wait I remember STOP DROP AND ROLL!

[Tax-chick]

When I was a kid in California, we had Earthquake Drill, too.

[Lancey Howard]

""They won't be left behind in kindergarten or first grade when things get more complicated," Chaponot said.""

No. Now they get to be "left behind" in pre-school.
The solution is obvious. Government needs to take control of infants, and schedule limited custody time to parents.

[enai]

Unfortunately those days are long gone. At least in the district where I teach. Kindergarten is an all day affair with no nap, a 30 minute lunch and only one 15 minute recess break. By the end of their Kindergarten year the children are expected to write with correct form all letters of the alphabet using lined paper, identify upper and lower case letters as well as produce all the sounds that go with them-three sounds for "O", two for "S" etc.; read 32 different high frequency words; count to 100 by ones, fives and tens; add and subtract to 10; recognize simple fractions; write simple stories using some correct literary form and reasonable spelling; and read simple "decodable" books. We're not talking "Dick and Jane" either. There is no time for free art, show and tell, music or story time and sadly, children with no prior school experience start out behind and many never catch up because they never get the foundation skills they need to be successful.

[enai]

Unfortunately those days are long gone. At least in the district where I teach. Kindergarten is an all day affair with no nap, a 30 minute lunch and only one 15 minute recess break. By the end of their Kindergarten year the children are expected to write with correct form all letters of the alphabet using lined paper, identify upper and lower case letters as well as produce all the sounds that go with them-three sounds for "O", two for "S" etc.; read 32 different high frequency words; count to 100 by ones, fives and tens; add and subtract to 10; recognize simple fractions; write simple stories using some correct literary form and reasonable spelling; and read simple "decodable" books. We're not talking "Dick and Jane" either. There is no time for free art, show and tell, music or story time and sadly, children with no prior school experience start out behind and many never catch up because they never get the foundation skills they need to be successful.