{"id":30977,"date":"2019-12-27T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30977"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:37:15","slug":"briefly-government-standards-are-making-5-year-olds-and-teachers-miserable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30977","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Government standards are making 5-year-olds and teachers miserable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Kindergarten-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30978\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Kindergarten-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Kindergarten-kids.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Kindergarten-kids-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top-down government efforts to push children into academics they\u2019re not ready for are hurting everybody. According to experienced kindergarten teachers, children in kindergarten today are unhappier than ever \u2014 and more teachers are quitting than ever \u2014 all because government bureaucrats are dictating that play be set aside in favor of academics that kids aren\u2019t ready for. According to psychologists, the academic benefits are very short-term, but the emotional damage being done to children is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/12\/27\/kindergarten-test-standards-reading-math-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-term and serious<\/a>. I have no idea why so many well-meaning parents still trust their children to be raised and educated by government bureaucrats, no matter how much they might like some of the teachers involved. The system is broken and is failing students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-down government efforts to push children into academics they\u2019re not ready for are hurting everybody. According to experienced kindergarten teachers, children in kindergarten today are unhappier than ever \u2014 and more teachers are quitting than ever \u2014 all because government bureaucrats are dictating that play be set aside in favor of academics that kids aren\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30977\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-83D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30979,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions\/30979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}