Comments on: Transitional kindergarten, California confusion http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/27/transitional-kindergarten-california-confusion/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Fri, 24 May 2013 21:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: AH http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/01/27/transitional-kindergarten-california-confusion/comment-page-1/#comment-48050 AH Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:52:00 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=14184#comment-48050 It seems the whole idea of transitional kinder was not well-thought out. Whose idea was it to fund another year of public school when we can’t even afford the 13 years we’ve already got?

Here’s my idea: treat kindergarten students like kindergartners, rather than first-graders. That’s when they should be learning to line up, name colors and letters, and write their name. Then nobody would need transitional kindergarten.

I’ve been an OUSD parent for five years now and while it’s true that kindergarten is more like first grade, it seems that the 4th grade curriculum is much like the 4th grade curriculum of the 70′s. So why the rush to front-load in kindy?

BTW, my youngest is a Sept 2008 baby. She will start kindy in 2013 as the youngest student, regardless of whether transitional kindergarten is offered in OUSD. If she struggles (which I don’t anticipate), she could repeat kindy. But, really, why do kindergarten twice if you don’t have to?

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