D’Nealian?


Posted in Frustration, School, The Boy by Nutty Mother Tuesday August 26, 2008

I went to curriculum night last week for The Boy and learned something very interesting!

Despite the fact that The Boy learned plain old block lettering in his State Run Pre K program - now that he is in the G County School System we have found out that he must learn the D’Nealian writing style. Please note that I have no problem with this.

What I have a problem with is that when I brought this up to the Pre K teachers at his daycare, they had no idea that G County required this. Um hello?!?! My daycare is in the same County as my school. Therefore, one would think that the state would coordinate their Pre K program with the County’s curriculum!

Again, I have no problem with him learning this but why are we creating more stress for the kids and the teachers by not catering the Pre K program for each county to work with what the kids will be required to learn in Kindergarten!

So of course, I am waiting from a call back so that I do not run into the same problem in 2 years with QD!

   4 Comments »

  1. smh said,

    August 26, 2008 @ 7:16 am

    Okay..you know I have to give my two cents on this one :) OSR (office of school readiness) may choose to focus on block letters from a fine motor standpoint. The other explanation may be that because the pre-k program is managed by OSR and not the dept of ed (I could easily be wrong) that the AKS doesn’t come into play. D’Nealian is part of the AKS requirements. From what I can tell, as long as the child can write something readable, the school is happy. The fact the daycare didn’t know stinks but that would require OSR to communicate w/ dept of education and vice versa :)

  2. mom said,

    August 26, 2008 @ 10:30 am

    i give up - what is d’nealian. it truly was easier when i went to school - 2 rooms, 6 grades, kids got educated and did not know how to read or write when they started kindergarten. how did we produce so much innovation with that environment?

  3. brenda said,

    August 26, 2008 @ 9:10 pm

    Okay, my 2 cents is - I agree with your Mother!!!
    What is d’nealian and how is it different from what he has been taught??
    Brenda

  4. Tasha buser said,

    September 16, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

    Oh, man oh man! I can so relate! Why doesn’t the pre-school get on board with the local district? It would save everyone a log ot headaches.

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