Jeremy's World

Jenn had some friends over last week and we had an interesting conversation. All of her girlfriends who get together one night a week to do girlfriend things have pre-school aged kids. One mom stated, “[Fill in the name] is ready to move past where she is in her class. But, I asked the teacher about it who said, ‘We can’t go past where the whole class is because everyone need to be at the same place going into kindergarten. They’ll teach her that stuff in kindergarten.’”

So, kiddo is ready to be challenged more than she currently is, but the pre-school (which is something we pay for by the way) can’t (or won’t) challenge the kids ready to take it up a notch for fear of them being ahead of their peers come kindergarten next year. Wow. Just…wow.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for (the theory of, not our implementation of) “No Child Left Behind.” But “No Child Allowed Forward” doesn’t seem like a logical extension of that to me.