LOL neato!!!!

I do think things are different now in school. My children have been up and performing in front of their peers since kindergarten and have no fear of public speaking whereas I never did an oral report until 7th grade and about DIED to be in front of people for the first time. Also, in kindy last year, my DS now 7 was doing some pre-algebra type work!!! I asked the teacher about it and she said they were introducing the concepts at that age to get them ready for more difficult pre-algebra/algebra conceps later on. My DS10 has already done some algebra type work this year also. I don't believe I saw an "x" or a "y" until I was in 8th grade when I took algebra.

I honestly think my kids are doing much harder work at an earlier age than I did (of course that was a long time ago so maybe I can't remember everything wink).