Oh my God!! What the HELL do they expect a kid in Kindergarden to know?!!!?

My son is 5 years old and is in Kindergarden this year. Last year, in pre-K, he mastered counting to 100, ABC's, simple sounds, and writing his name. I read to him all the time, and he can read very simple books, like the cat in the hat, with some stumbling. However, he's 5. I'm not expecting perfection.

Anyways, I get a progress report today from his teacher saying his skills in these areas need improvement? WTF?? I do EXTRA work each night with him, even though they do not have homework. We do simple mathematics, reading, writing his name and other words, sounding out words, and a fun make a sentence and draw a picture to describe it. Every night. What the hell are they expecting? From what I see, my boy is doing super. Is he supposed to be calculating the radius of Neptune at 5 years old? Jesus.

He got all satisfactory for staying on task, behavior, participation, work skills, and following direction. But they claim he cannot write his name and doesn't know the alphabet.??????

Answers:
call his teacher and ask her to set up a casual conference and see what accomplishments she's aiming for this year and what to prepare him for his transition into the 1st grade.

since you know he can say the ABCs and count, he might just be too shy at school to do it in front of the class and/or teacher.

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That's BS, the teacher probably just wrote the same thing on all of the kids' report cards because she had too many to grade. You should have a talk with her & let her know how you feel.

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