New Preschool is Crushing Kids

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New Preschool is Crushing Kids

In my view, the new preschool is suppressing kids. Preschool is supposed to be a place where kids experience gentle transitioning as opposed to being crushed to things, they cannot figure out for themselves, and even though learning at that particular time. The new preschool curriculum is teaching children hard things, making it difficult for kids to learn. Imagine at kindergarten, the kids being forced to narrate and understand things such as classroom rules, bar charts, time table, motivational platitudes, among others. It sounds ridiculous and sickening. In other words, these kids are forced to learn things that are beyond their mental development. We understand that at preschools, children should be more accustomed to play-based learning as opposed to the present “seatwork.” Teachers tend to come up with scripted teaching and control the pace at which the children learn. Such a model should be used at the fourth-grade level and above. Parents and teachers are setting higher expectations for their kids. They expect the children to know how to read at a very tender age of which is not possible since their brains are not prepared for that.

Early childhood education was somewhat pleasurable and unhurried. Nowadays, the teachers in preschools expect or rather suppress kids to spend much time in books than creative play and arts. Perhaps, the teachers and other stakeholders think that they are preparing the kids’ foundation, but, they are holding the children’s development even before starting. There have been cases where a significant number of kids had failed to advance to the first grade, meaning there is a problem in learning models at preschools. Kids should not be subject to disqualification, nor should the preschools act as a barrier for kids to advance in their next development level. Preschools are indeed suppressing kids to execute tasks meant for six-year children, even without motor skills and attention span required to be successful. Teachers strain kids to attend to their scheduled work before going to play. Teachers need to understand that playing comes naturally to kids. Its part and parcel of their development.

Preschools should be pre-academic and should not engage children in learning earlier than they should know. The tendency of such practices makes kids become less interested and engaged and often result in deteriorating attitude towards the school and learning. The fact that they are not offered a chance to interact among themselves socially, these kids fail to display skills required to retell a simple story. They lack an essential foundation for understanding connecting words and prepositions. It goes on to haunt them in their advanced grades, and they end up performing even badly subject test skills. Kids fall victims to losing learning enthusiasm because of the insidious tasks. The old system of preparing kids is eroding faster, and perhaps; parents think that there is no place for the old system in today’s hypercompetitive world. The article suggests that preschools fail to offer kids anything essential for their learning development.