Xposted in learning in school....but really would love some homeschool mama's to respond too.
We are living in Mexico and have found...what we thought was the best private school in town. They teach 1/2 days english/spanish. My son is almost fluent in spanish, native tongue is english. He is 5 and will turn 6 in November. He has never been to school, no pre-school. Just at home with me since day one. He has also been shy to doing any type of writing here at home. I've bought several homeschool books and done all kind of activities to help him learn how to write his letters. He has almost mastered his name. He is also left handed.
So we enroll him at this Private school and they test him. place him in K-5 which they tell me is the same as Kindergarten in the US. Now 2 weeks into school my son is crying not wanting to go, he says the work is to hard, he cant do it. He's been sent home with 5-6 books some days and has 30-50 min of homework ..and this is kindergarten. One of the books was cursive, and he's not even writing in print but they have a cursive book?
I went in for a meeting today with the direction of education and some other lady and they told me that here in Mexico children start school at age 3 and by the time they get into k-5 they already know how to print and write. Well my son is really struggling as this is all NEW to him. They want to put my son in k-4 which would mean he would be in a class with 4yo's and he is a older 5-almost 6yo. I dont know how i feel about this. They also said that the teacher doesnt make modifications to help individual children along. That the child either get's it or doesnt. They do offer a helper 2 times a week to catch the children up and also suggest a after school tutor to help him catch up. They said they dont have many children require help as they have been in school since they were 3yo.
Now...this goes against every thing that i believe in. I know that children learn best through play and to be in school from 3yo-18yo...is just to much...children need to play to learn in the early years. I just think that much school can squash an imagination.
I'm at a loss.....when i first signed him up they said that if a child is behind that they have a special teacher who would come to the class and help catch him up. Well sounds like the tune has changed quite a bit.
Any thoughts?
I am really thinking about homeschooling him...however he resist doing any work here at home.
We are living in Mexico and have found...what we thought was the best private school in town. They teach 1/2 days english/spanish. My son is almost fluent in spanish, native tongue is english. He is 5 and will turn 6 in November. He has never been to school, no pre-school. Just at home with me since day one. He has also been shy to doing any type of writing here at home. I've bought several homeschool books and done all kind of activities to help him learn how to write his letters. He has almost mastered his name. He is also left handed.
So we enroll him at this Private school and they test him. place him in K-5 which they tell me is the same as Kindergarten in the US. Now 2 weeks into school my son is crying not wanting to go, he says the work is to hard, he cant do it. He's been sent home with 5-6 books some days and has 30-50 min of homework ..and this is kindergarten. One of the books was cursive, and he's not even writing in print but they have a cursive book?
I went in for a meeting today with the direction of education and some other lady and they told me that here in Mexico children start school at age 3 and by the time they get into k-5 they already know how to print and write. Well my son is really struggling as this is all NEW to him. They want to put my son in k-4 which would mean he would be in a class with 4yo's and he is a older 5-almost 6yo. I dont know how i feel about this. They also said that the teacher doesnt make modifications to help individual children along. That the child either get's it or doesnt. They do offer a helper 2 times a week to catch the children up and also suggest a after school tutor to help him catch up. They said they dont have many children require help as they have been in school since they were 3yo.
Now...this goes against every thing that i believe in. I know that children learn best through play and to be in school from 3yo-18yo...is just to much...children need to play to learn in the early years. I just think that much school can squash an imagination.
I'm at a loss.....when i first signed him up they said that if a child is behind that they have a special teacher who would come to the class and help catch him up. Well sounds like the tune has changed quite a bit.
Any thoughts?
I am really thinking about homeschooling him...however he resist doing any work here at home.
