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ShazzieB

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13. This trend of turning kindergarten into a full day sitting at a desk doing worksheets has gotten totally out of hand.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2024, 04:16 PM

Apr 2024

This is what happens when academics are prioritized over everything else, including letting kids be kids.

This stuff has been going on for a while now. My daughter started kindergarten in 1990, and even back then, it was a full day of seatwork, from what I could tell. She was SO not ready for that!

She barely made the age cutoff to start that year, and I would have waited another year to send her kindergarten if I'd had any idea what it would be like.

This school sounds even worse. At least my daughter was allowed to talk to the other kids at lunch time!

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Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence? [View all] Jilly_in_VA Apr 2024 OP

My guess is somebody in authority wants to get the kids used to being watched bucolic_frolic Apr 2024 #1

Missing CloudWatcher Apr 2024 #2

I subbed at a school that had a 25-30 minute lunch. Phoenix61 Apr 2024 #3

One of the points of kindergarten is peer interaction/ social skill acquisition. Irish_Dem Apr 2024 #4

Play, unstructured and structured is the most important developmental task for children kindergarten age dlk Apr 2024 #5

My mother, an experienced preschool educator, was hire to consult for an "underpriveledged" preschool MadameButterfly Apr 2024 #8

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again, but expecting different results dlk Apr 2024 #18

Play is so important. MontanaMama Apr 2024 #10

So which is it? Biophilic Apr 2024 #6

The goad is to create obedient automatons who are incapable of thinking for themselves dlk Apr 2024 #19

I'm sorry, but this is just plain sick; snot Apr 2024 #7

But hey the school might be able to score higher on some kind of measure IbogaProject Apr 2024 #21

Do not question the rules, just obey or you will regret it. School. twodogsbarking Apr 2024 #9

Same kind of thing with my kids decades ago. If the lunchroom talking got too loud, pnwmom Apr 2024 #11

Sounds like a Republican idea of 'freedom' to me. louis-t Apr 2024 #12

This trend of turning kindergarten into a full day sitting at a desk doing worksheets has gotten totally out of hand. ShazzieB Apr 2024 #13

It takes me that long just to open and assemble my Lunchables JoseBalow Apr 2024 #14

And for a five year old??? PatSeg Apr 2024 #15

So they make it impossible for the kids to interact socially at luinch time. patphil Apr 2024 #16

I teach in an elementary school AwakeAtLast Apr 2024 #17

Then Jilly_in_VA Apr 2024 #20

15 minutes for lunch especially at that age is insane IbogaProject Apr 2024 #22

As a retired NC High School teacher CRK7376 Apr 2024 #23