{"id":2245,"date":"2008-03-11T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/still-unsure\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:02:00","slug":"still-unsure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/still-unsure\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Unsure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going with Kindergarten:<\/span><\/p>\n

Pros:
— Will won’t be bored.
— He’ll be with kids the same age.
— He’ll do the summer program and will have had a little French already.
— We’ll be going with the way the system is structured, which we feel is sort of part of committing to the way the learning environment works.
— The kids will be spaced 3 years apart which gives them only one year of overlap in college (okay, that is really not in our considerations.)<\/p>\n

Cons:
— Will he be ready to sit at a desk and do math, science, homework, and the like in 18 months (1st grade is serious stuff)…?
— Will he be at a disadvantage without having the extra year of French before 1st grade?
— Are we cutting his childhood playtime short? Does he need more time to play?
— Is he still going to need a nap in 6 months?<\/p>\n

Going with PreK<\/span><\/p>\n

Pros:
— One more year of playtime.
— Naptime continues one more year (Kindergarten-ers don’t have nap.)
— Two years of French immersion before 1st grade.
— If he continues with this grade progression, he’ll be “bigger” physically compared to his peers later, which I understand is a plus for athletics and social issues for boys?<\/p>\n

Cons:
— He’ll be the oldest in the class (I’m not sure if this is a pro or a con… but Will doesn’t do the alpha kid thing and I don’t see him being one to set the example… I see him more adopting whatever behavior seen in the other kids. This may not be a good thing.)
— He’ll be in class with 3-year olds who may be in very different places developmentally.
— He may be bored?<\/p>\n

Thoughts\/suggestions welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going with Kindergarten: Pros:— Will won’t be bored.— He’ll be with kids the same age.— He’ll do the summer program and will have had a little French already.— We’ll be going with the way the system is structured, which we feel is sort of part of committing to the way the learning environment works.— The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}