Interesting. I do feel that K teachers should assess their kids to see what they know already and go from there. Do they really need to spend time on rote counting, colors, letters, etc if everyone already knows them? One could see that creating other issues, I guess.

There are definitely kids in DS's K class who came in not knowing letters at all (he attends a Title 1 school). They are still working on counting to 100. He says they can mostly all do this now, but not all of them.