“Kindergarten is so strict. I can’t even describe how intense it is. Kids are expected to read when they leave kindergarten. It’s changed our whole curriculum. We don’t have snack in the afternoon, we have one recess a day, and that’s maybe for ten minutes. By the afternoon, the kids are saying, ‘I’m hungry, I’m tired.’ But our schedule doesn’t include time for snack, for play, for rest.”
