Parents are looking at kindergarten, looking at what's happening in kindergarten.

And unfortunately, what's happening is that we've turned kindergarten readiness into a competition.

We want to see whose kid can be the most ready for kindergarten.

And it's really under this flawed idea that if my kid is more ready than another kid

or has more knowledge going into kindergarten, that that will somehow make that child a better learner

for all of their life, all of high school, all of college if they choose to go there.

And again, it's just a really flawed way of looking at education

and we know research tells us it's not true.

Obviously, kids need foundational skills and they need certain things heading into kindergarten

and into their school years.

But the idea that if you force a child into handwriting or force a child into reading

or force a child into mathematics before they're ready,

that that will somehow make that child smarter in 10th grade.

I mean, when you just say it out loud, you can write away here like,

well, that really doesn't make sense.

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