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Starter   I am having a hard time with how academic my sons
kindergarten class is.  He goes to a small Catholic school and
his school started a new reading program this year: the Riggs
method: http://www.riggsinst.org/ which is phonogram based.
They spend a lot of time on this every day to the point that
although they have playtime, recess, gym, they aren't doing much
art, math, science.  Everything is going in to reading.  My son
only likes school because his friends are there and they play
soccer at recess.  I really believe kindergarten should be about
playdough and blocks still.    They also have 2 'tests' a day on
their phonograms.  One in the morning on the single letters
(basically the alphabet), and one in the afternoon on the 2 and
3 letter phonograms they've learned