Originally Posted by Mk13
Originally Posted by momoftwins
To answer Mk13 - the purpose of K in my school district is to learn to read, and do basic arithmetic, but really, most of their time is spent on reading.

In our district K is only half day. So I just can't see how much can they actually learn in the 3 hours at school out of which very little will be used on academic instruction anyways. So in our case I do feel like K will be pretty much a repeat of pre-school frown

I have heard that half day is K without the fun stuff. They do literacy and numbers, but no free play, no art, no recess, no science.