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Should kids entering kindergarten be tutored? - 8/22/2009 9:22:22 PM
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fiery
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I don't see the need for that. Critics say it undermines what the school will be doing with them. Two hours a week all summer is a long time for a kid of that age.
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Krissy, who turned 5 this month, will be among the youngest kids in class, and her mother emphasizes she isn’t trying to create a superstar student. She just wants to make sure her daughter is prepared to keep up with the other children who are learning their words and numbers, too. All of them will be expected to master various academic skills in the upcoming school year, or risk retention.
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The group released a report this spring titled “Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School,” which concludes that kindergartens have changed dramatically in the last two decades “from places where love of learning was thoughtfully nurtured into pressure-cooker classrooms where teachers are required to follow scripts, labor under unrealistic one-size-fits-all standards, and test children relentlessly on their performance. Kindergarten has ceased to be a garden of delight and has become a place of stress and distress.”
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RE: Should kids entering kindergarten be tutored? - 8/23/2009 2:37:56 PM
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dianerene
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In california, kindergarten is not mandated, so if your child IS in Kindergarten, they are already well ahead of countless other children. I personally don't feel tutoring is needed, but I do see the importance of beginning children in preschool so that they understand the "time for learning/time for play" routine.
On another note, while I agree with the importance of play for children, and needing to learn how to socially interact with other kids their age, I feel that most people have become way too soft when it comes to academics. I absolutely do NOT agree with credit for phoenetics (sp?) in spelling tests, I do not agree with teaching to the tests (or the entire standardized testing system, for that matter), and I do not agree with moving a child ahead in subjects when they have not fully grasped the lesson. of course, most of these issues are later on in the academic process, but it all starts at the beginning.
Unfortunately, I think too many parents have left all school age child rearing up to the schools. they expect the school to teach them about way more than reading, writing and math, which means there is LESS time to actually approach those subjects. but, that is another rant entirely - LOL
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