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While every parent wants their child to succeed in school, they also want them to learn how to graciously accept failure. But one dad has realised he has his work cut out for him after seeing his five-year-old daughter's sassy response to her class assignment.
He explained how her teacher shared her answer with him when he went to collect his daughter from school - and he couldn't help but laugh at it. The youngster was tasked with completing a maths worksheet in class - which she did in record time. But when asked to explain her working out, she simply wrote "I am smart" in the answer box, instead of showing to formula she used to get the answers.
The girl didn't quite understand the question (Reddit)Sharing his daughter's worksheet on Reddit, the dad wrote: "My five-year-old in kindergarten... oof. We have a folder going of all the best things from preschool - we will be saving the good stuff for years to come."
In response, one user said: "I was making pizza out of playdoh using Crayola markers as lipstick in kindergarten. You have a smart kid."
Another user simply said: "You need to frame this."
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A third user joked: "The proper answer is 'I find it very uninteresting'."
However, others couldn't believe a teacher would deem this an age-appropriate assignment for a class of five-year-olds, claiming "it looks more like second grade work."
One user said: "This seems advanced for a five-year-old. My daughter is aged 7 and is in second grade - this looks more closer to what she be doing in class.
"I don't think almost five-year-olds could read this or comprehend the questions."
Another user added: " My kids went to a private school and they didn’t do work like this until second grade.
"It was an all boys school, which is to say, the curriculum was designed for how boys learn. The focus was on learning through games, sports, lots of physical movement, story telling and an emphasis on enjoyment of learning and especially reading.
"At the all girls school they were doing stuff like this. By eighth grade the boys were doing advanced geometry, algebra, and pre-calculus and they were tracked into two levels. But kindergarten was about channelling all that energy into joy and development."
Challenging this, an American school teacher went on to explain how "kindergarten standards have changed a lot" in recent years.
She said: "I work in a preschool and they are already doing simple addition and subtraction, so this type of work is on track for a kindergarten class that's halfway through the school year.
"The kids probably aren't reading it by themselves, but they are expected to be able to do the correct counting and write the numbers.
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I"'m not saying it's developmentally appropriate, but that's what school districts (and parents) in the US want and expect from young children these days."