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I'm a pre-school teacher and I can tell you it is important for your child no matter how advanced you think they are. I have parents tell me how much a golden their children are and when they leave all I see is a spoiled idiot brat. What they learn in pre-k isn't just the usual colors, number, ABC's, etc., it's social and emotional things, right and wrong, self expression, creativity and consequences. I'm amazed how many of these things people don't help their kids learn and then get pissy when I tell them their childs' negative behaviors because they know it's their behaviors as well.
I just had a a 5 (going on 6) year old kick me in the face today because he learned it at karate practice. I told him what he learns there isn't to use on someone unless they're trying to hurt him and all he did was smile and laugh. When I told his mom about it and suggested if it continues he should be taken out of karate as a punishment she told me "I'm not doing that to my son, I'm glad he learning something there." I told her what he's taking from it isn't the defense aspect that it's based on but how to hurt people like he sees in shows and video games.
So please if you're not going to teach your kids how to be good people alongside being intelligent then let us do it.
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