1 month ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
Part of that is that it's now "Junior Kindergarden".
I started school at 5yo, three days a week, my son started at 3, full time (or so they'd have liked). He was toilet trained but I'm not surprised that you'd get accidents with a class full of four years olds suddenly needing to ask permission of pee.
And they have no idea what to do when that happens. They call the parents. I talked to a lady whose 4yo daughter was left to stand around outside the bathroom for nearly an hour, pants around her ankles, after having an accident while they waited for her to come to the school.
I'm of two minds because, yeah, parents are not putting in the effort required to raise good kids but, at the same time, they're explicitely told by the school system that they can drop their kids into kindergarden and the school will take care of the rest. Schools have all their own rules and social mores that my kids don't follow at home, but I'm expected to teach that?
For example, my kids don't need to ask me if they need to pee, because I know they know what they're doing. But at school, everyone has to put their hand up until they crap their pants, waiting for the one teacher in a class of 20 toddlers to notice them.
So to all these teachers bitching; look in the mirror. *Your* system is what's broken. When you talk to homeschoolers who send their kids to any amount of school, the main justification is "socializing". But, apparently, the schools can't even do that without parental assistance. So why are they getting paid?
In my board, there is $13,000 per year set aside to educate each student. Imagine if this were a grant that homeschooling parents could get instead? You could *easily* have stay at home mothers with enough cash on hand to visit the local pool/gym every week with enough left over for at least one set of private lessons.
Ya I agree with this rebuttal. Kindergarten is morphing into state run detention camps beginning at age 3 or even earlier with "preschool daycares".
As a parent myself I agree with criticisms of parents but I've also discovered that literally nobody helps you raise a kid, like in the old days. Now that I'm out of the west bubble for a while I see how much more involved people are with kids, neighbors cousins and such really stepping up to help. And don't get me started on boomer grandparents not even giving a shit about helping.
I started school at 5yo, three days a week, my son started at 3, full time (or so they'd have liked). He was toilet trained but I'm not surprised that you'd get accidents with a class full of four years olds suddenly needing to ask permission of pee.
And they have no idea what to do when that happens. They call the parents. I talked to a lady whose 4yo daughter was left to stand around outside the bathroom for nearly an hour, pants around her ankles, after having an accident while they waited for her to come to the school.
I'm of two minds because, yeah, parents are not putting in the effort required to raise good kids but, at the same time, they're explicitely told by the school system that they can drop their kids into kindergarden and the school will take care of the rest. Schools have all their own rules and social mores that my kids don't follow at home, but I'm expected to teach that?
For example, my kids don't need to ask me if they need to pee, because I know they know what they're doing. But at school, everyone has to put their hand up until they crap their pants, waiting for the one teacher in a class of 20 toddlers to notice them.
So to all these teachers bitching; look in the mirror. *Your* system is what's broken. When you talk to homeschoolers who send their kids to any amount of school, the main justification is "socializing". But, apparently, the schools can't even do that without parental assistance. So why are they getting paid?
In my board, there is $13,000 per year set aside to educate each student. Imagine if this were a grant that homeschooling parents could get instead? You could *easily* have stay at home mothers with enough cash on hand to visit the local pool/gym every week with enough left over for at least one set of private lessons.
As a parent myself I agree with criticisms of parents but I've also discovered that literally nobody helps you raise a kid, like in the old days. Now that I'm out of the west bubble for a while I see how much more involved people are with kids, neighbors cousins and such really stepping up to help. And don't get me started on boomer grandparents not even giving a shit about helping.