[quote=lookingagain]I would have to agree with zk, and wonder if you are being a bit reactionary flu. My daughter also started kindergarten this week, probably at the same school as your daughter. While I have encountered a few difficult situations overall I have been impressed by the behavior of the children I have witnessed. It is much better than what I see at the adjoining park during evenings and weekends. As far as the sucking up, what I see is parents with the second or third child with the same teacher so of course they will be friendly! Just relax, things will work out.
And by the way, just about everyone I know with a kindergartener at that school reads and writes at first grade level and is bilingual so really our kids are just average[/quote]
I wasn’t implying my kid is exceptional or above average.
I guess most of you folks are right, and probably overreacted a bit.
I didn’t have a pleasant kindergarden or for that matter elementary. I remember we were playing with some big wooden block, and this kid took one of the big blocks and threw it at my face, and he an his brother thought it was funny. And no, this wasn’t at some ghetto school.
And then I resented the fact that the teacher assigned me to help out not one but two esl students, because that was time away from my other friends who ended up not wanting to play. But hey, I guess times are changing because apparently the after school enrichment programs include “Mandarin 1 and Mandarin 2”.
