Thursday, September 3, 2009

Kindergarten

And here you can read about some of the many reasons we are not sending our kids to kindergarten.

From the article "Pressure-Cooker Kindergarten" in the Boston Globe

"Meanwhile, more and more children are “failing” kindergarten, according to the Alliance for Childhood report -- and missing out on the kind of early schooling that does help develop 5-year-old minds. Winifred Hagan is a former kindergarten teacher and a vice president at the Cayl Institute in Cambridge, a nonprofit that sponsors conferences for principals and fellowships for the study of early childhood education. She worries that vulnerable kids are being sent down a path to failure inside a system that was created to meet purely political goals. “Kids are spending hours of their day sitting with pencils and tracing dotted lines,” she says. “And we call that education? We are kidding ourselves.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello, kindergarten thats a german word right. From Hildeshiem - EB, MB and KB

emme said...

I actually can hardly read articles like this. As an OT it makes me crazy that they ignore developmental needs in favor of politics! It just gets worse all the time.