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So to admit my daughter to pre kindergarten, the school expects her to know the alphabet already. Talk about pressure.
by manojlds 9y ago
So to admit my daughter to pre kindergarten, the school expects her to know the alphabet already. Talk about pressure.
- enitihas 9y agoWell, some schools even expect the parents to be well educated.
- adrianN 9y agoThat's not unreasonable if you want to select for high performing children. The correlation is very clear.
- enitihas 9y agoThere are various correlations which are very clear, like parents wealth. The question is whether these are ethical. If every school filters for such criterion, would students from poor or uneducated parents ever have a chance at social mobility? Do we want such a society?
- lotsofpulp 9y agoIn the US, the voting majority seems to want such a society, otherwise we wouldn't have so many politicians cutting education and other taxpayer funded support to families in need.
- rc_hadoken 9y agoIs that hard to teach..I mean..its the alphabet..Excuse my possibly ignorant questioning.
- ieuan 9y agoDepends on the pupil. I'm dyspraxic and never learnt the alphabet. It hasn't affected my life or career. Not sure what use it would be to me.
- ehsanu1 9y agoNot sure if troll, but giving the benefit of the doubt... You are clearly posting a comment comprised of letters of the alphabet. How would one do so without knowing the alphabet, assuming you typed it out rather than dictated it. And well, you also read the original reply. So are you having all that dictated for you? Or are you implying the reading/writing does not require knowing the alphabet (which is difficult to believe, but who knows)? About the use of an alphabet, have you used a dictionary or any other system that is alphabetically ordered?
- ieuan 9y agoApologise I didn't make it clear. What I mean is learning the order of the alphabet. I was taught read, write and type without ever being able to memorise the alphabet. The last time I used a system that is alphabetically ordered was in a CD shop 10+ years ago. Im not being sarcastic but I use a dictionary regularly, I just search for word using Google.
- afarrell 9y ago> never learnt the alphabet By this, do you mean that you can't read? Or you can't remember the ordering of the letters? Or that you can recognize whole words but not as being made up of individual letters?
- ieuan 9y agoThe order of the letters.
- leadingthenet 9y agoYes, it’s ridiculous that kids can’t just be kids anymore, they already have to be a part of the hamster wheel by age 5-6. Knowing the alphabet at that age is far less important than gaining social skills by playing, and spending carefree time with other children.
- manojlds 9y agoTalking about pre kindergarten which happens at age 3 ish in India.
- akshat_h 9y agoIt is expected for them to know the English alphabet. English is not the primary language spoken in most of India, so it is more difficult than it might seem.
- outworlder 9y agoIt takes months of constant reinforcement at that age. Even worse if it is a foreign alphabet.