No. And if I think of it like that is isn't a problem at all. Dd is just so bored in class.

-side note teacher will NOT send home harder homework or give dd anything higher level.

I am taking a lot of the advice for you all and basically using kindergarten as a daycare and doing our usual homeschooling ciriculum at night. (Meeting Wednesday with kindergarten teacher to determine whether we pull dd to public school for rest of year.) - dd will have test in Nov to see if she qualifies for gifted classes and if so she will leave private school a few days a week to go to public school for classes, so My main thought is why not have her at public school already so she can have more advanced courses... Opinions? But my main issue is, it is the third week of kindergarten and her teacher is just now starting course work and it is practicing writing the number 1 and the letter a. Ten next week is 2 and b. Literally. Dd can spell and do addition and subtraction. I feel like this is a waste of money and time and would like to see about moving her up... I don't know though. If she moves up in private school no problem with teacher anymore. But not sure she is ready emotionally. Opinions?

I think I will go in Monday and offer to help volunteer and see how they handle that approach. I honestly don't think the teacher is intentionally mean, I think she just needs to teach an older class. She is too stern and unhappy. And in kinder that is such an important year, I am worried they are going to damper her down and make her change emotionally

No I understand. We kept all talk of kindergarten away from dd when it involved feelings of the teacher. I completely thought dd was being overly dramatic and sensitive to new rules until she and I talked to another couple yesterday and their dd said the teacher "screams at them" and she didn't want to go back either. Now dd and this girl are very good friends so there is a chance they are feeding emotionally off each other's distress. But I am so worried all day, and some of it isn't even kindergarten related, just her in school too. She is more of the sit back and let the chips fall where they may type person, but even he is talking about talking to the principal.... Which I am worried will make us look like overly dramatic people-thus in the future we won't be take seriously.

We went with private because everyone told us that the etcher was being monitored much closer and that the teachers aide ( who is the biggest a sweetheart ever!) has stepped in a lot. But literally every night (only been in school 3 days) Dd has said her teacher is mean and screams at them. I am literally like WTF!!! Pardon my French but it is the first week of school!

I have been a wreck since dd started kindergarten. She went to pre school 9-1 everyday so I don't know why this is such a change but it is. Mornings are filled with tears, mind you I act like it is fun to go in front of her but truth is I hate her going!!! We were going to homeschool until we hit some financial trouble and now me working is necessary. I literally cry everyday and count down the hours till she is home. Advice please??!

That is true. She can communicate with anyone of any age, my only spiral concern would be pulling her from her class that a few of her friends are going to be in.

It would cost the same for any babysitter in town, so I am thinking of just providing a more challenging afterschool program, to make sure she is learning, and not falling behind what I know she is capable of. I could easily see her flying through assignments and being a class clown due to free time.

I will be hopefully spending some time observing in class (which is allowed) and I am hoping your idea is right!

I was not meaning to be insulting at all, I did not specify that the kindergarten teacher does not have the nicest reputation, and dd is advanced, she does many things at 1st grade levels. The reason I feel like it is more babysitting- day care is it is costing an arm and a leg. I don't know how else to word my opinion on it.

We are having an abundance of issues. From my post in k-8 I really like the advice I was given, not being truly comfortable with the teacher, and DD's schedule having very minimal learning time, I would rather attempt homeschooling around my work, ironically, I am a substitute for the public schools in town.

This is what my parents keep telling me, to address it "if" a situation arises, I am worried I won't know a situation has raised until after. I could just see dd thinking she is in trouble, and not telling me

My concern for dd, (be is pirate school or public, we are up in the air, homeschooling isn't an option financially this year). My question is, dd just turned 5 ( July 24). She an read simple books like "pat sat on a hat" books and has a vast vocabulary, my question is she can add up to 20 (can count much higher) and can subtract up to 10. So is normal for entering kindergarten? I feel like she will be bored.

She just turned 5, July 24th.