Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful

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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:09pm

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051101/news_1n1earlyed.html

Very interesting. Particularly the difference in the middle to upper income kids vs low income.

"I personally feel children need the nurture of their parents and the home," she said. "Those early years, that's when they are bonding to their family. That nurturing, only the family can give that."

I tend to agree.

MM, WOHM to B&E, 7.24.03

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:30pm

I think we agree.

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Unfortunately, I haven't seen many systems hit the first milestone, much less do it and still have the resources to do part 2.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:32pm

So your child is currently in K? Does your school teach reading in K? Ours doesn't. They wait for first grade to formally teach reading.

I would like to ask you at the end of his first grade year how you feel about it. If you don't feel he is "held back" by sitting through lessons of Hat, Cat, Sat, and other beginning reading strategies, I will be surprised. If you find a way to make sure he doesn't have to sit through that, I will be happy for you.

I found that the primary focus of first grade was reading, something my child had long mastered, and the lessons related to reading took a large portion of the school day. In my case, it was absolutely brutal for my child sit through primary reading lessons when he was an advanced reader. But I can understand that his experience isn't going to be everyone's.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:32pm

Actually, it's not so much the shipping as the taxes. Anything shipped from outside the E.U. gets slapped with a 30% tax. English books are hideously expensive in Sweden (not surprising). I do sometimes order through Amazon DE because they have a good selection of English books at reasonable prices and friends could ship them to me dirt cheap, but now those friends have moved to the U.K. and shipping prices from there are horrible. I'll probably give up and just start ordering more from Amazon UK now. I hadn't really gotten into the habit yet because up till last year, Sweden slapped a huge tax on anything shipped from the U.K. as well (eventually shot down by the E.U. courts).

Speaking of trips to the U.S. It looks like it's on for the middle of May. I should know by next week whether I will be spending a weekend in D.C. Are you still up for a getogether?

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:32pm

"Do you think the kids in the top percentiles are any more prone to "wasting" their education and potential than those in the middle percentiles or lower percentiles?"


No, I don't think so.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:32pm
I guess we are interpreting the statements people are making in this very thread quite differently. Wouldn't be the first time we've done just that.
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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:35pm

"I found that the primary focus of first grade was reading, something my child had long mastered, and the lessons related to reading took a large portion of the school day. In my case, it was absolutely brutal for my child sit through primary reading lessons when he was an advanced reader. But I can understand that his experience isn't going to be everyone's."


Does that school not do reading groups according to ability?

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:37pm
YAY!

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:40pm

I honestly think it depends on the kid and the teacher. Ds actually wasn't bored at all in first grade. I still remember the day he said (in quite a cheerful tone) "mama, we did a whole bunch of things relating to the letter 'A'!" From what I gathered, studying the letter 'A' meant lots of drawing and colouring, collages of things that began with that letter, themes around the letter (Apple day, for example), stuff like that.

The first grade curriculum didn't focus exclusively or even primarily on reading skills so maybe that was a difference. Dd is in first grade now and she gets primarily math and German homework with the requirement that she read 15 minutes per day as her only reading homework. Books were selected for the kids to reflect their reading abilities, so they were rarely really bored with the reading assignments.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:40pm
I'm with you. I'm hearing what you're hearing.
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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:41pm
but if or when he gets to middle/high school where do you think he will be. i know my daughter who was an early reader has non problem reading the same books the rest of her sophmore class reads in english. what is as important as the reading are the discussions that take place about what was read, and i dont think it matters if it took her two hours to read the book and someone else five hours.
Jennie

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