Testing day....

Today was Aragorn's "School prepardness testing" and i'll tell you what, there is nothing that will make you feel like a horrible parent more, than having a teacher tell you your kid, basically isn’t ready for kindergarten, but really he has no choice because of his age. We were all excited for him to take this "test" as we thought he is actually a pretty smart cookie, and picks up on things well. Apprently, according to the State of Colorado, he is far from a smart anything. According to this test he had to take, he can’t cut with scissors, doesn’t recognize letters, can’t write his name, got the names of shapes wrong……the list goes on. His teacher even made a comment about how she could tell he hadn't been to preschool.

This is frustrating for me as his mom because I KNOW he knows some of it. He IS smart and we have been working on some things. The scissors thing I will give her, we haven’t worked on that. I didn’t know that was such a HUGE deal to be honest (but according to her, they will be using scissors as early as his 1st day-which is tomorrow). As far as shapes and stuff, he knows them (for Pete’s sake he called a circle an Oval, really?) She said he didn’t know the difference between the front cover and back cover of a book i will dispute that to the grave (along with the shapes thing).

I just wanna cry about this, I feel like I’ve failed as a parent……I feel like I let him down for freakin KINDERGARTEN. I mean whatever happened to kids getting to be kids? Summer was meant for fun, but now, he’s expected to know almost everything before he even goes. WHY should i have to put my child in school at age 3 to be ready for kindergarten? And WHY if that's what the schools want, do they not make Pre-school mandatory and affordable?

I am hopeful that his was just "i don't know who this women is, why is she asking me to do this stuff?" having never been in preschool, this was all new to him.

I just hope it gets better for him.