Idk. I really hate this shift to academic push down. This stuff isn't developmentally appropriate. This is what we are taught year after year in ECE classes, and then when in the classroom, they don't apply the theories they drilled into us for years. It makes no sense. Well, it does. It's because no actual teachers or ECE pros created or had part in the core curriculum development. Very frustrating. I bet if you meet with the teacher, they will put him in a different group. The teacher probably finds all of this just as problematic as you do - stressing out five year olds!?

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