Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Full time kindergarten

Apparently, schools today expect kindergarten to gear toward much older and mature children.  Kids do not come out of kindergarten as adults, and they will not be adults for a long time.  So, why is the only kindergarten we can afford a full day kindergarten?  My 5-6 year old does not need to keep full time hours and full days.  She is a CHILD!  So, just because I cannot afford a private school, I have to send her to full time kindergarten.  Why is the cheaper school longer hours?  The students that come out of private schools do fine on half day kindergarten, so why does public school force a whole day kindergarten on students?  Are private schools really that much better that they can teach the same curriculum in half the time?

Enough of my ranting.  We are enjoying our summer and hope you are, too!

1 comment:

  1. Don't start me on this one! Full-day Kindergarten is set up for working parents.... PERIOD! If the public schools always did what was in the best intrest of our recious kiddos things in this country would be kids it would be different. We took one look at the opportunity room with 25 other little low concentration, learning socialization kiddos and decided to homeschool for the year.... (thankfully we had a neighbor that modeled success) now the boys are sailing along. What started as a kindergarden rovided, has turned into "School". K-12 has a wonderful virtual public school program. All books and tools, (computer included) are provided. Kindergarten classes would take a couple hours a day, they learn, you get to watch and be amazed at how fast they catch on.........
    Wow, quite the rant myself....... good luck~ Penny

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