Josh they'll be fine. Colt was ahead of the game just by being able to recognize words, write his name, and do simple math like 1+1 and 2+2. We read to him every night and started him out halfway through preschool on those little reader books and it helped him a lot. Main thing in K is sight words. They'll get new ones every 9 weeks and by the end of the year they need to know them all.

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We do have a very good school system. We hired an officer for overwatch last week. I am fine sending them to school but what should they know is the question?

Educator wife that retired a few yeas ago said: Know their parent's names, how to print their own names correctly with capital first letter, how to tie their shoes, how to zip or button pants, letter names and sounds of all or most letters, recognize numbers and how to count 1 - 10. Have a respect for authority and peers.

I may not have put that in the order she said, but that's about it.

Edit: She also said to read read read and talk talk talk to them.

Daughter just graduated from college and will be a kindergarten teacher this year. I have asked her what the baseline "knowledge" a new K student is expected to have going into day 1. I will update with her response to me.

Daughter just graduated from college and will be a kindergarten teacher this year. I have asked her what the baseline "knowledge" a new K student is expected to have going into day 1. I will update with her response to me.

ABCs, color inside the lines, names of colors, know how to tie shoes. Much else is way over thinking or over complicating kindergarten.

I asked an experienced K teacher and she said... write their name in print, effectively communicate simple things like needing to go use the bathroom and being able to socialize with the other children. She said the being able to socialize aspect is an issue these days.

Both of my girls work in the younger ages of school, one as a therapist and one as a teacher (she has been student teaching for two years and starts as a full teacher this year)..both say this socialization issue is real and all the experienced people in their fields say it is directly from covid...thats when it started and has not gotten better since. Kids don't work as well together, don't socialize as well, and their parents are not near what they used to be. Covid lockdowns, school shut downs, and screen time are the biggest hindrances to normal societal behavior in kids....has to start with the parents. And tik tok and insta are killing the younger adult generation too.

Both of my girls work in the younger ages of school, one as a therapist and one as a teacher (she has been student teaching for two years and starts as a full teacher this year)..both say this socialization issue is real and all the experienced people in their fields say it is directly from covid...thats when it started and has not gotten better since. Kids don't work as well together, don't socialize as well, and their parents are not near what they used to be. Covid lockdowns, school shut downs, and screen time are the biggest hindrances to normal societal behavior in kids....has to start with the parents. And tik tok and insta are killing the younger adult generation too.

For sure the socialization part is very locale dependent. The numbers of kids with such issues is the startling thing to most that have been in the younger ages for a long time. I am sure this is a little like walking uphill to school each way in the knee deep snow, but they say its the worst its been and getting worse yearly. Time will tell how bad covid was for our kids due to the crazy stuff the politicians put our kids through. We already know the educational toll it took on them, but there are other issues we won't fully know until adulthood...time will tell.

I will say there are a lot of dead beat parents out there that raise their kids with screens and tv. Sad. I don't know if it is getting worse or not, but it is hard to change behavior of parents when they were taught the same dead beat parenting by their parents...there is definitely a nurture issue here that is generational...it goes both ways though. Good parents raise good parents. Bad parents raise bad parents. Not always, but it follows a lot more than it should, both ways.

Finishing out Spring 2020 at home during Covid has had absolutely no long term effects on learning or social behavior for my 3 boys. Or the Covid restrictions in place back in the classroom in the Fall of 2020. I don't view that as a viable excuse for students in Texas 4 years later. Maybe other states that had more severe restrictions, but not Texas. Kids are adaptable.

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