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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:04 AM Original message |
It's time to stop the madness! I was told that children entering kindergarten in Maryland |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're behind the times |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. And homework! |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Homework is a crime against family life! |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Our elementary school-aged daughter has more HW than I had in junior high |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
2. Our national IQ average is starting to slip |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. So, are you for or against pushing small children ahead this fast? |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sounds like craziness to me. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I think "sight reading" means memorizing the whole word, same as in Chinese |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. What raccoon said. Here's a link re sight reading |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. You're livining in yesteryear. |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Yesteryear? |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. Of course I'm living in yesteryear. I was born in 1950 and |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #45 |
59. Yeah me too, born in the late 50's.. |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
48. That sounds like the purpose of pre-school to me... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
4. Get 'em a "Speak 'n Spell" before they are two. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. My 2-year-old daughter can say the alphabet |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. I have three grandkids, six, seven and nine. |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's not child care, it's school. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Shouldn't school be child care, in the broadest sense of the term? |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Okay, then "It's not babysitting, it's school" |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I'm objecting to the push for rote learning at an early age in place |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. What's your opinion of Sesame Street |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. My kids watched Sesame Street sometimes. What I recall is that the |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Sesame Street was (and is) a great program.. |
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Kaylee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. You do realize that Kindergarten isn't a bunch of kids sitting at |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
46. I think what you describe is what kindergarten is meant to be. |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Then you are complaining about nothing. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. According to the woman I was talking to, children were required to know the alphabet |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. Or what? They're not admitted? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. You're probably correct. The more I think about this, the more I realize |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. My gosh. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #60 |
62. It's not the early learning that's tied to racism. It's the use of early learning |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #23 |
43. Do you think kids in kinder are sitting in a lecture hall |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
56. that film about the crayon factory was awesome |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. It was great but it kept me from learning about the great works of literature in pre-k |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
28. i don't like parlor tricks but sometimes rote learning helps |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. In addition |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Parents need to teach their children, the question is what are they teaching them? |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. Why does one preclude the other? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #41 |
49. My expertise is limited to my own experience as a student and mother. |
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Carl Skan (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #21 |
44. Agreed with the other poster about one precluding the other |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
32. If the child is not developmentally or emotionally ready |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:29 PM Response to Reply #32 |
64. Much wisdom in what you say Lydia! |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
38. Yeah, because god knows we can't expect parents to do that anymore. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
14. I entered kindergarten at 4 years old and could read about 10 words and all the alphabet. |
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Kaylee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
19. No. My son just entered Kindergarten in Maryland. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
22. This is madness |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I had the hardest time understanding what teachers were talking about when they |
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TicketyBoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
29. My son was reading |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
31. In kindergarten '69-70, we learned our letters and had our first Dick, Jane & Sally reader. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
33. I think it's to determine who's needs "Readiness Kindergarten" and who goes into regular |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
53. There is a possibility that part of what is going on here is a form of |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
34. My husband teaches pre-K and they review |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
35. They learn the alphabet before kindergarten |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
36. 30 years ago when I was teaching Kindergarten |
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ctaylors6 (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
37. are you sure they "must" be able to do those things? or is it a screening test? |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
39. My daughter knew her alphabet at 18 months |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. we learned the alphabet in kindergarten. |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
42. How are they supposed to get into a good kindergarten if they can't read at least a little? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:00 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Either way, your statement epitomizes |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #50 |
65. Yes, that's been the attitude in Japan for over thirty years |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
52. I flunked Kindergarten |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. According to my Dad, I flunked coloring. |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
61. Kindergarten isn't an extension of playtime anymore. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. We need to learn to play as well as to work. Otherwise you end up with |
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