Originally Posted by ultramarina
Your son's school sounds pretty intense. Public or private? Perhaps a competitive district? What are the expectations he is not meeting? What is he able and unable to do? In K, most kids can't really read or write much yet, or do math beyond facts 1 to 10 and counting to 100.

Just wanted to add - ita with all of what um said. I was also wondering what the expectations were going *into* kindergarten. Our neighborhood schools really don't have expectations, even our gifted magnet had kindergarten students who weren't reading all that much by the end of K.

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