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NYC_SKP

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1. Well, why wait until grade two to make kids feel like failures?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2015, 12:19 AM

Jan 2015

Why not just start in preschool?

In practice, this is pretty much what educational expectations, as experienced by learners, tend to do: they make them feel inadequate, they make them hate learning.

So sad.

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The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten [View all] elleng Jan 2015 OP

Well, why wait until grade two to make kids feel like failures? NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #1

Scares me, elleng Jan 2015 #2

I saw a news report on how parents don't let their kids start kindergarten now until they're 6... Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #3

I did too. femmocrat Jan 2015 #4

Can't help wondering how far this could go since parents want their kids to be as mature as possible Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #5