r/interesting • u/Professional_Arm794 • 21d ago
HISTORY Kindergarten requirements for 1954
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u/BillHistorical9001 21d ago
I can smell that paper.
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u/Dada2fish 21d ago
I loved getting a warm paper, fresh off the machine on a cold winter morning in class. Press it in your cheeks and hands.
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u/scubachris 20d ago
Reading this just gave me a brief flashback to elementary school. The smell of fall and sugar cane fields burning.
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u/SabrinaEdwina 21d ago
"I hide under my desk when nukes come our way."
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u/fortnight14 21d ago
I hide under my desk nicely when nukes come our way.
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u/S_NJ_Guy 20d ago
I hide under my desk nicely when nukes come our way, and I bring the paper with me so I can smell it while I'm down there.
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u/harperrc 21d ago
i wear a dogtag that has my religious preference so they know how to bury what the find :)
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u/Im_100percent_human 21d ago
When I was in elementary school in the 1980s we still did this, but it ended at some point while I was still in elementary school.
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u/Apart_Republic_1870 20d ago
We still had them into high school where I was (though that was also the 1980s. I graduated in 1989)
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u/MaryD1112 20d ago
And now kids do the same hide and cover practice for school shooters/ intruders. Sad.
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u/RUfromHere 21d ago
Same here. I remember kindergarten starting & having to count to 100 unassisted & luckily my mother taught me how to read so I was in!🤣
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u/mamallama12 20d ago
Made on a Spirit Master machine. I see many people saying mimeograph, but a mimeograph worked on a stencil type system, like silk screening. A Spirit Master worked on an ink transfer system, where the purple ink was coaxed out of wax and transferred onto the paper. Only the Spirit Master had that fantastic smell because of the duplicating fluid composed of methanol and isopropanol alcohol.
If you were running late with your copies, the paper was still infused with the alcohol smell. And, yes, I'm old enough to have used both machines.
If you made a mistake on the Spirit Master, you had to take it out of the typewriter, use a razor blade to scrape off the wrong letter, rip off a corner of a different sheet, place that piece where you scraped the letter off since there was no more wax there, return the whole thing to the typewriter, trying your best to align to the sentence with the missing letter, and then type the correct letter.
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u/awhiteblack2 20d ago
That is fascinating as a 33 year old who still prints a ton of paper copies of things in a civil construction office. Thanks for explaining.
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u/pyramidalembargo 20d ago
That smell was heavenly.
Every single person who worked with Dittos will tell you about that smell.
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u/pyramidalembargo 20d ago
We called it the Ditto machine...
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u/Grimnebulin68 20d ago
I remember copying machines being referred to as ‘Foolscap’, but the name Foolscap refers to an even older type of printing press.
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u/DigasInHell 20d ago
Never have I had such an instant hit of serotonin. Came here to say I could smell this picture.
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u/Azuras_Star8 21d ago
I was 5 hours late. This was my first thought. The chemical smell. Talk about unnatural.
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u/Capt-Sylvia-Killy 19d ago
I used to run the mimeograph machine for my teachers. Such an iconic fragrance.
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u/Hotchi_Motchi 21d ago
"I can do what the music tells me" sounds like a disco hit from 1977
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u/Celtslap 21d ago
Potentially dangerous with the wrong song.
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u/wesley_the_boy 21d ago
Helter Skelter has entered the chat
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u/MackiePooPoo 21d ago
Beastie Boys has made an entrance with You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
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u/thelonious_skunk 21d ago
"I use books in the right way" ✅
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u/K1NGEDDY423 21d ago
While some people roll em into joints
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u/nderthesycamoretrees 21d ago
Bible pages worked in a pinch.
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u/Sunlit53 21d ago
That’s what my grandparents did during the war. Read the scripture, tear it out, mix the tobacco half with dried shredded seaplant to extend it. Smoke it together. Nazi occupied Haarlem, Holland, WW2. Before the Hongervinter Famine of ‘44.
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u/Kylynara 20d ago
Have you ever seen a 1 year old use books? They mostly chew on them. But this specifically means holds it right side up and turns pages one by one in the correct direction.
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u/Super_Ground9690 20d ago
The biggest issue now is kids who don’t know how to turn the page. They tap it like a tablet screen.
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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 21d ago
I don't think I'm qualified for kindergarten.
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u/SlipperyGibbet 21d ago
Neither are today's kindergartners
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u/Background-Cod-7035 21d ago
Definitely since the invention of Velcro 😂. My husband and I even tie our shoes differently
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u/SleveBonzalez 21d ago
These are the END of kindergarten items. It's a June report.
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u/TempusVincitOmnia 21d ago
Yes it would, and that's a shame. It's like they're actively trying to prevent kids from developing a confident sense of independence.
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u/rock-paper-o 20d ago
In general I think we’ve gone the wrong way in pushing academic skills earlier but spending less time on explicit hands on life skills.
Not necessarily walking to the corner store when a lot of us now have corner stores that are a CVS across a busy road but things like helping with cooking, cleaning, simple yard work and gardening, crafting, interacting with new adults to do things like order a meal or navigate a check out. Kids build so much confidence when they do that successfully and we largely don’t talk about them as learning experiences.
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u/AdmiralHomebrewers 21d ago
Well, good news. This is June, which is at the end of Kindergarten. You'll get there.
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u/Simple-Olive895 20d ago
Tbf knowing ALL the colors is a pretty damn tall order...
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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 20d ago
My brother had a box of 64, with the sharpener built right in.
Being the second child, I only got the box of 48, and my brother wouldn't share the sharpener.
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u/uniquechill 21d ago
I was born in 1954. Apparently standards had dropped by the time I got to kindergarten.
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u/Fun_Image8846 21d ago
i like how knowing your father’s name and knowing how to sew are on the same level
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u/itsnobigthing 21d ago
It’s very basic sewing - running a needle and thread in a basic stitch in ready perforated fabric. Not like making a dress haha
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u/nobodythinksofyou 21d ago
Most people these days would freak out at the thought of a kid being within reach of a needle
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u/repressedpauper 21d ago edited 21d ago
We had these in kindergarten. It was plastic or wood and on a wooden board with holes drilled into it to run the yarn through. I think my mother mentioned doing the same kind in the 70s.
No poke risk!
I had a plastic cross stitch grid/yarn/plastic needle when I was a bit older and then my grandma taught me to embroider with a real needle when I was like 10-12ish. I’d also get to “help” my grandma at her sewing machine. Sorry grandma.
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u/sixstringsikness 21d ago
I remember the tiniest bit of sewing a "path" for a bug on burlap for a little crafts project in kindergarten. I probably got there that day in the bed of an uncovered pickup though.
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u/frejas-rain 21d ago
Not your mother's name though. She's unimportant /s
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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 21d ago
In those days, the mother’s name typically was the father‘s name. Phone numbers were listed by the name of the head of the household, which was the father. Children typically did not address adults by their first name. People used first names for friends and family, acquaintances who were close in age or younger, and people who were at your level or below at work. A stranger would be more often addressed as Mr./Mrs./Miss and their last name. Certainly, teachers would have addressed their pupils’ parents as Mr. or Mrs.
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u/Calm_City_6229 21d ago
In that 1954 kindergarten report, “wraps” means outerwear—coats, jackets, sweaters, scarves, etc.
So these two lines:
“I can take off and put on my wraps”
“I can hang my wraps correctly”
basically mean “I can put on/take off my coat and hang it up properly.”
“Wraps” was a much more common school term for children’s outer garments in the early/mid-20th century. Today a kindergarten report would probably say “outerwear” or “coat/jacket.”
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u/AdventurousBrick6193 21d ago
And we had a cloak room?
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u/wise_owl68 21d ago
In NJ (growing up in the 1970s) we would change from snowboots, pants, jackets, hats, mittens to our regular clothes in the morning and then reverse when leaving. Everyone walked in kindergarten. No one had cars or rode buses. The mom's in the neighborhood would switch off weeks to walk with all the kids to school.
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 21d ago
I mean knowing your father's name is more a life achievement than a skill
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u/thelonious_skunk 21d ago
who's your daddy?
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u/Resident_Course_3342 21d ago
And what does he do?
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u/legojoe97 20d ago
Max: "He's a liar."
Teacher: "A liar?!"
Max: "He wears a suit, goes to court, and talks to the judge."
Teacher: "Oh, he's a lawyer."
Max: shrugs
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u/IncurableAdventurer 21d ago
Oh my gosh. I feel like I heard it more than I read it. If that makes sense haha
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u/unclewomie 21d ago
Is he rich like me?
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u/snuggleslut5 21d ago
Has he taken
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u/biteyfish98 21d ago
Any time?
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u/masterCAKE 21d ago
Who cares about mom's name tho
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u/No-Show-5363 21d ago
If dad was Mr John Smith, then mum was Mrs John Smith. This was about child safety and being ability to identify their family. Everything was under the dad’s name, including the phone directory listing.
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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 21d ago
This. Unless the child had memorized their home phone number, the best way of locating his or her parents was to go through the phonebook. And the phonebook was listed by last name and the first name/first initial of the head of the household.
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u/Resident_Course_3342 21d ago
That 80 barrier is a tough one to crack.
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u/iJon_v2 21d ago edited 20d ago
I was about to say, never ask her to count to 80.
She’s good at 79.
EDIT: Hopefully someone caught that family guy reference, i.e., “She’s good at 17.”
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u/AmaranthWrath 21d ago edited 15d ago
Fun fact, this is very similar to what we were using to evaluate kids in preschool and preK when I was teaching pre covid.
Questions were a little different. But we did quarterly checklists for each kiddo, and then made sure we addressed and worked on anything they were behind on. The goal is to make sure they were Kindergarten ready, academically, socially, emotionally. We also wanted to identify any limitations or development issues that should be brought up with a pediatrician via the family.
Edit: LMFAO at u/SittlersRippedC who decided to call preschool teachers "babysitters," then deleted their embarrassing comment.
Who do you think you're insulting? The teachers who make sure little kids can use scissors and recognize letters and button their own coat and who help identify disabilities? Or the parents who entrust their kiddos to licensed and trained professionals bc they have other professions that don't include child psychology and development? Like, who was your target on that one lol? The toddlers?? The preschoolers? Who were you aiming at, bro?
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u/LeaveGreen4412 21d ago
my mom kept mine for some reason and in the 90’s it was basically the same as this minus the counting to 79 and sewing. maybe more vague about some of the skills here
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u/haileyskydiamonds 21d ago
I wonder if the “79” was just how high that student could count, since it was open-ended.
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u/AmaranthWrath 21d ago
Yes, for my personal 1986 eval it was as high as one could count. Same for the ones I administered to kids.
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u/Kylynara 20d ago
Yes. That exactly it. I know on my pre-kindergarten screening back in 1985 they had me count to 100. I knew how, but I got bored somewhere in the 60-80 range, told them I knew how and just stopped. So they wrote the last number I said. (As an adult, duh, obviously.) As a kid that made me so mad. And when I got to the end of the year and had to do it again I went ahead and counted all the way there just to make sure I got credit.
To be clear I did legitimately know. I just thought it was obvious by then that I understood the pattern the numbers made.
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u/TurnipWorldly9437 20d ago
We still get similar lists from the paediatrician and the daycare separately.
Some of the points on our current lists are outdated already, though: the paediatrician's list when they turned 5 had "answers the phone saying their full name" - which nobody under 50 does, to my knowledge, and "can walk known roads by themselves" - which, if I'd try to send my 5-year-olds off by themselves, I'd get in a lot of trouble.
"up to age" changes very much within a few years, sometimes.
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u/the_buggiest_bug 20d ago
Elementary teacher here, and I just want to shout out all of you preschool teachers. In the earlier grades (K-2), we can tell when a kid has been to preschool or not based on everything that you guys help them learn. Y'all do a stellar job and make such a difference in the lives of those kids AND the lives of their future teachers.
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u/AmaranthWrath 20d ago
I positively chuffed to bits to read that. So so so often we got treated like baby sitters or daycare or "so you get paid to color?"
While I left the preschool during Covid, I still work at the school. My early learning center friends are my OG crew. And since many of the elc kids go on to the elementary school across the campus, YES, the teachers can definitely tell which kids got preschool instruction and support!
Thank you for all you do!!
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u/ehs06702 20d ago
IIRC, these were the standards back when I was in kindergarten in the early 90's. You also had to be potty trained, which apparently isn't mandatory anymore?
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u/Ijustreadalot 20d ago
Kindergarten in 1954 in the US was essentially the equivalent of today's pre-K. That's why it's very common for state laws not to require kindergarten attendance even though that's now the expected social norm. Back then regular public schools started with 1st grade and kindergarten was something parents paid for at a private school. Where I grew up, even into the 1980s there were multiple preschools in my city that went through kindergarten and then the kids would move to an elementary school in 1st grade.
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u/DominicPalladino 21d ago
I took that test. The teachers were very surprised. They said no other president has ever done so well. Not only that no other president has even TAKEN the test. I aced it. I did it so goodly they want me to take it again next month.
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u/EhliJoe 21d ago
A lot of the new 5th graders at our school didn't achieve half of the tasks.
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u/oohh_behave 21d ago
Most can't even sew :(
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u/Palatablepancakes 21d ago
And nowadays it's always with the "When will I use that though?" What, learning to do a task? Uh, for the rest of your life? It's just good for you. You don't have to get direct utility out of everything you do. Learning and adapting and acquiring a skill is good for you and will benefit you in other areas.
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u/meteorflan 21d ago
In the 80's, I don't think we did any sewing in school until 4th grade - We were learning about the games kids played in the 1800s and made a marble bag.
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u/ThatPerformance9795 21d ago
And think! All of these kindergarten skills were mostly taught at home 😱. Shocker. Remember back in the olden days when kids used to color and paint at home? Parents used to help by reading them books at bedtime.
Now, many just give them a tablet and call it “there’s all you’ll ever need” childhood.
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u/LeadershipAble773 21d ago
Remember back in the olden days when parents could AFFORD to stay home and teach the kids?
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u/ehs06702 20d ago
I mean, all the women in my life were fully employed (because they were preferred to work), and I still managed to get taught all this stuff.
Working isn't the problem. Not caring enough to make sure your kid is starting life off right is the issue
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u/MarkyGalore 21d ago
I used to read r/teachers before it became too depressing. Kids could not feed themselves. They were unable to take food with their hands and put it in their mouth.
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u/Professional-Fun-838 21d ago
I also spent some time on r/teachers. I was floored by the number of 5 or 6 year olds who weren’t potty trained and the parents who expected the teachers to potty train them. These children didn’t have special needs. Their parents just didn’t potty train them. And there were teachers in both the US and UK discussing this.
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 21d ago
I am surprised by this, too.
Not just from a life skills perspective (which is critical, don’t get me wrong!), but also financially.
Diapers aren’t cheap.
I am a grown ass adult, but my mom still complains that she potty-trained me at 14 months because they couldn’t afford the diapers anymore. And that it involved a lot of yelling. LOL
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u/Key_Raccoon3336 20d ago
If a 5 or 6 year old can't isn't potty trained the school and teachers should be making daily reports to CPS for neglect.
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u/LaineyValley 20d ago
I noticed this too. It wouldn't occur to the kindergarten to even put that requirement on the list because it was assumed.
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u/kaleighb1988 20d ago
I thought it was a requirement that kids must be potty trained before starting kindergarten. That's just insane.
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u/BulkyPlatypus2951 21d ago
Being given a tablet from such a young age has been terrible for their fine motor skills. They’re not given crayons and coloring books at age one and two like*previous generations. I can tell the difference between my friend’s kid who was given a tablet at two and never given books or crayons vs my daughter who was given crayons/coloring books and didn’t have a tablet until she was about 5 or 6. My friend’s child still struggles to tie his shoes at almost 13. You can tell he has a hard time grabbing the strings and with the fine motor movement. He just tucks the strings in…
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u/ChristinasWorldWyeth 21d ago
Nordstrom’s kids shoe department has a sign on the checkout counter offering free shoe tying lessons. I got curious and asked the salesperson how many kids usually signed up, and she told me teens and adults often came too.
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u/EnderBookwyrm 21d ago
Oh dear mercy. That's incredibly sweet and understanding and humane, and a bit terrifying.
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u/Ok-Highway-5247 21d ago
When I was in first grade in 2001, I was bullied for being the only kid who couldn’t tie her shoelaces. I was embarassed. I had a coordination issue and was really trying. Classmates would offer to tie my shoes and then tie them together or something. I practiced as much as I could, tying laces wasn’t for me until I was older.
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u/ADHDFeeshie 20d ago
When my kids were new to tying shoes I tried to get them shoes with laces to reinforce the skill and I had a surprisingly hard time finding them for a reasonable price. They've both been taught about 3 times now because they'll learn and forget based on how much practice they're able to get. Thankfully both are old enough that more shoes have laces now and it seems to have stuck.
I didn't figure out how to tie a bow until first grade either, though. I just couldn't wrap my brain around the method I was taught, and eventually I was fidgeting with the belt on my dress and figured out if I just tied the loops in a knot it would make a bow without all the rabbit nonsense. I don't think I figured out the single loop method until high school and I still do it my way 😂
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u/edjumication 21d ago
I remember doing a general skills evaluation as an early teen and I did somewhat poorly at that test where you put lot of small pegs in a peg board. The tester joked that my parents probably dont make me do the dishes as a chore lol. That really stuck with me and now I get a strange sense of satisfaction from quickly and methodically hand washing a sink full of dishes.
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u/AltRockPigeon 21d ago
Tbf it’s probably the exceptions that get the most upvotes and half the stories are probably made up too
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u/PhantomOyster 21d ago
But do you remember the face of your father?
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u/Alternative-Zebra311 21d ago
And we only went for 1/2 a day and learned all this!
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u/zback636 21d ago
I remember when I was in kindergarten. We had to bring a small rug and take a nap each day. It really was just to get a child used to be away from mom.
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u/m1rr0rshades 21d ago
"I know all the colours". Go try buy paint, you do not know all the colours
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u/GurthNada 21d ago
Kindergarten aged kids knew the entire Pantone chart back then.
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u/Rise-O-Matic 21d ago
The intersubjective authority of Lowe’s paint swatches is coarse at best. When I was in kindergarten we had to identify them by their CIELAB value within ΔE ≤ 1.0
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u/rachelblairy 21d ago
I genuinely almost got held back in kindergarten because I couldn’t tie my shoes. We moved states and my parents just put me in first grade and called it a day.
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u/Conscious-Air-9823 21d ago
I still do the bunny ears trick at 28. it’s so embarrassing lol. but I mostly tie my sneakers and hide it behind the tongue of the shoe for fashion purposes anyways.
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u/AvailableAd6071 21d ago
I had to spend a weekend practicing tying my shoes because I couldn't do it
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u/Past_Tea5075 21d ago
Some high standards & I like it. Will implement this with my 3yr old. A bit of alil tweeks but I want her to be ready & not struggling. Thank you OP for the share.
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u/Conscious-Air-9823 21d ago
I’m a nanny for mostly 1-3 year olds, it’s insane how much they absorb and you can teach them! this list seems intimidating but I can see the average 5 year old knowing all this with time and patience
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u/edjumication 21d ago
Also I imagine its not required to check every item to pass to the first grade. More of a checkup to see how they are doing and if they need to practice more.
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u/liquidgoldminer 21d ago
Margaret sounds like a swell gal, but at her age, Sally Draper could mix a cocktail and drive a car.
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u/Ill-Stomach7228 21d ago edited 18d ago
“I can sew” and “i have had a cooking experience”? At 5??
Edit: i think when i saw “i have had a cooking experience” my brain jumped straight to “five-year-old making an omelette” and not “five-year-old measuring a cup of flour and putting it in a bowl”
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u/salamanderme 21d ago
Not sewing, but my 4 year old helps me cook all the time. He has a special knife he uses to help me cut, gathers ingredients, mixes things
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u/Suitable-Ad-1990 20d ago
i actually work a summer camp that does baking and sewing projects with 4-6 yr olds and you would be surprised at what theyre able to do
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u/No-Consideration-891 20d ago
I think people have slowly started to forget kids are smart and more capable at learning new things vs is adults
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u/NicoleNicole1988 21d ago
A cooking experience can be, you helped mom scramble an egg while she stood beside you. Or your father let you put in seasonings and stir the pot.
Sewing is big and chunky at that age. It’s just fine motor skills.
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u/Wonderful-Teach8210 21d ago
You mean you couldn't sew a robe a l'anglaise when you were 6?
It's pretty standard even now to have lace-up cards where you weave a shoestring or a plastic needle and string around the outline of a cat or whatever. It's just a measure of fine motor development.
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u/Miami_Mice2087 21d ago
i was sewing doll clothes and helping my mom make cookies at 3 in the early 80s. Brother did the same. We have a picture of him washing dishes at 3 or 4.
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u/LopatKat 21d ago
I went to Montessori school and in 1980 at age 3/4, I was making pancakes and English muffin pizzas by myself, in class. I was also, sewing as a hobby, always making doll clothes and silly accessories for myself.
I feel like these skills haven’t been taught at that age for QUITE some time, now.
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u/DannyDevitosNappy 21d ago
US citizens should have to do this every year before voting.
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u/xkmasada 21d ago
Is this a Kindergarten intake checklist or a Kindergarten graduation checklist?
It seems a bit advanced for an intake checklist, and the timing (late June) implies that it’s for kids after a year of Kindergarten. The requirement to sew seems particularly odd for little ones. That requires quite a bit of fine motor skill!
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u/IncandescentGrey 21d ago
I remember 'sewing' when I was little. You got a big, mostly blunt plastic needle and some yarn. You then 'sewed' some thick construction paper. I think it started with laminated paper with holes punched through it and you later graduated to thick construction paper without holes, just directions and big dots/ dashes.
At one point we DID in fact make these tiny pillows with real cloth and plastic needles and thick thread.
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u/Minimum-Car5712 21d ago
I think they mean the wooden boards with holes in it you’d lace a shoestring through in different patterns, not with needle and thread
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u/sushimonster105 21d ago
I agree. This reads more as a post-kindergarten report card than an intake list.
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u/mischievous_misfit13 21d ago
That’s way more requirements I needed in 1985-7. I didn’t know my parents had names until middle of elementary school. That was a confusing time for me.
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u/ThePolemicist 21d ago
I was in kindergarten in the 80s, too. I remember a lot of our checklist. Much of it was similar. We had to be able to tie our shoes, count to 100, know our address, know our phone number, be able to skip, and know how to cross the street.
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u/Nunov_DAbov 21d ago
I can think of a particular 80 year old who would be challenged on many of these items. Scissors, politeness, kindness, care with toys and materials particularly stood out.
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u/AmazingProfession900 21d ago
Some kids today can't do half this stuff by High School....."I know pennies, nickels, dimes....."? Good luck...
Try paying with a $50 at McDonald's and watch the glitch in the matrix.
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u/rachelblairy 21d ago
I handed a cashier a quarter once and she went ‘I know it’s a quarter but I can’t remember how much it is….’
She looked so despondent I just told her what change I was owed
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u/Disastrous-Birb 21d ago
Some kindergartners still wear diapers now. And I had to teach a 10yo how to tie her shoes.
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u/ContributionBig5976 21d ago edited 21d ago
My daughter went through her kindergarten assessment a couple months ago and it was not to different, except that she was also expected to be able to identify every letter and tested on how many phonics she knew.
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u/wayneforest 21d ago edited 21d ago
Was it an assessment before she entered into kindergarten or near the end of her kindergarten school year? This says kindergarten report, plus it was in June (end of typical school year) so I’m wondering if these were the things they taught that school year and if they can do these things then they “passed kindergarten” and are now ready to enter 1st grade. So, technically these are requirements for 1st graders enrollment, maybe most of these things are taught in preschool though nowadays.
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u/AquaStarRedHeart 21d ago
I mean, I have three sons and I'm fairly certain they all could do these things (not sure about "wraps"?). The future is not as dire as people think. My children were reading very well and excellent at geography in kindergarten. A lot of these are couched in "nicely" as every child is a bit different. But overall, these are not terribly stringent.
ETA: okay they couldn't sew 😭
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u/ApprehensiveAd3619 21d ago
I was in kindergarten in 1957-58. Almost kicked out by the teacher because I needed help putting on my jacket. My mom was overprotective and always did too much for my brother and me. But she had to give me a crash course in Jacket 101 to keep me in kindergarten.
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u/Exalted-Stork-1308 21d ago
Nice. So what happens if you don't meet one of the requirements? You are not accepted? You are accepted but parents have to pay?
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u/LimeSalty4092 21d ago
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You could probably have up to a certain number of skills ‘unchecked’ and still pass on like normal
If you got perfect checks in most categories, but just struggled in one or two particular categories, you could still pass but may be flagged in first grade as “behind”
If you had many many skills unchecked across multiple categories, that’s what would be considered failing the assessment
and you would then be referred to either repeat Kindergarten and also possibly meet with the school psychologist
to determine if it’s a case of just immaturity in which case repeating K is then the best strategy,
or if it’s a more serious learning problem or a vision problem or other more serious issues like that require more support than just repeating K
So it’s an assessment I’m sure there was a formula involving the number of missed checks that constituted failing or passing, including how many per category could be missed
Like if a kid missed 6 total checks throughout the assessment, they would likely pass
But if they missed 6 checks but they were all concentrated in two categories, including failing an entire category then they may interpret that as needing to repeat K
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u/Miami_Mice2087 21d ago
you'd be held back a year, or removed to come back next year if you were accepted but turned out to be a little hellion still behaving like a toddler.
I used to be an elm classroom aid 20 years ago, we'd only kick them out if they weren't potty trained. Most of the stuff on this list is like, good to have, but both parents work so the kid has to be somewhere.
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u/Commercial-Spray3192 21d ago
There was a child in my kid’s kindergarten class who choked another child (kid was ok) with the cord on wired headphones. That child was definitely removed. I often wonder where they ended up.
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