Re: challenging an intelligent child

On Sep 28, 4:43 pm, Beliavsky <beliav...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 28, 3:44 am, "Donna Metler" <dmmet...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OP here.
I'm not ruling out skipping a level in future grades. I just don't
want to go into this with a mindset that she must skip kindy. DH and I
never attend grade school in the US so this is all new to us. Thanks.

Kindy is probably the one grade which should not be skipped.

Kindergarten is the grade that legally can be skipped -- I think
states do not require it. When did full-day kindergarten become the
norm? I don't think it was so long ago. Is there evidence that more
children attending kindergarten has been beneficial? I think a
motivated and educated mother at home could prepare a child for 1st
grade just as well as a kindergarten could.

Universal preschool has become a favored political cause among
Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who would "invest $10 Billion in
Universal Preschool: Hillary has a detailed plan to provide universal
access to high quality pre-school for all four-year olds through a
federal-state partnership."http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/youthopportunity/

I find this to be relatively reasonable.

. I have sent my oldest son to preschool because our babysitter does
not mentally stimulate our children, but if my wife stayed at home, I
think she would do a better job teaching and socializing our kids than
a preschool.

But the high bit in your personal situation is that it appears your
spouse *isn't* staying home, hence preschool seemed like a reasonable
substitute/supplement. (I'm not going to touch the 'motivated and
educated mother' component, as I can't do that with any modicum of
dispassionate disagreement...)

I believe that the Clinton plan is proposed for similar reasons --
the alternatives that many kids have are not as great as a high-
quality preschool. If a two-parent professional family acknowledges
-- as you did -- that it was not possible to provide an optimal
learning environment at home, how can a one-working-parent family
(let alone one without a high-level professional with a reasonable
income) provide the optimal environment?

Caledonia


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