What’s the most important thing you learned in kindergarten? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Schwegler School on May 18, 2009

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“How to count and how to spell.”

— Elyse Boxberger, sixth-grader,

“Spelling and counting.”

— Kaitlyn Applegate, sixth-grader,

“Reading, because it’s gotten me here now, and also easy math facts.”

— Stevin Hays, sixth-grader,

“How to count and how to read, because it’s really important now.”

— Brian Chang, sixth-grader,

“To keep my hands to myself.”

— Tristan Star, sixth-grader,

“Basic counting and reading, because it’s a big part in life.”

— Kyle Berkley, sixth-grader,

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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

Boys use the elephant room.

bearded_gnome 4 years, 1 month ago

wow, that's some kindergarten TOB!

"“To keep my hands to myself.” " more important than those math and spelling thingys.

these are great kids.

for me: it was learning that you could play with other kids in an organized way.

bearded_gnome 4 years, 1 month ago

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, Greenest state in the land of the free. Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree, Killed him a bear when he was only three.

Davy, Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.

grammaddy 4 years, 1 month ago

To play NICELY with others, and that boys have cooties.

average 4 years, 1 month ago

A half-hour nap at 1 in the afternoon is a marvelous idea.

it is okay to color outside of the lines. i actually STILL stay in contact with my teacher, miss mary. and yup...i still call her that too...it feels really strange if i just call her mary. ooh weird.

Pywacket 4 years, 1 month ago

Too bad more boys don't learn the valuable lesson Tristan learned! For being good students of this lesson, many years later, nice boys are often invited to break that rule! Not-so-nice boys who fail to learn it find themselves looking up from the floor, with stars circling overhead.

What I learned in kindergarten was that teachers should retire some time BEFORE they grow to hate kids and become abusive hags that the kids still remember with loathing 40-some years later.

It took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades, with wonderful, kindly teachers, to assure me that not all classrooms are inhabited by abusive hags. Luckily, I could read before starting kindergarten, and reading was often my refuge. And I wasn't even one of her main abuse targets! I often wonder what became of the ones who were.

I realized when I got older that they were the ones (due to home circumstances) who were probably most at risk to start with... Very sad what was allowed to go on back then. Nowadays, a teacher like her would be booted, and rightfully. And I am all for strictness & proper discipline. There is a difference.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

Prospector, I can not recall, but it was some animal without a trunk.

zettapixel 4 years, 1 month ago

Latin... I went to Catholic school and had to give a speech in front of the Mother Superior of the group of nuns that worked there.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

Play nice.
Don't run with sissors.
If you ignore them, they will soon tire and stop.
Anytime you can vote on anything-vote!
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Take a nap every afternoon
People with symmetrical features tend to be free of disease and genetic disorders and thus more likely to bear healthy offspring
If convicted, try to get sentenced to a federal prison. Unlike state prisons, they tend to have many white-collar criminals, are usually more intelligent and have a better concept of foreplay.
After you've started the riot, yelling 'just kidding' doesn't do much good.

passionatelibra 4 years, 1 month ago

I learned that not all smiling people are nice.

gogoplata 4 years, 1 month ago

How to run a trot line.

gogoplata 4 years, 1 month ago

Cause a country boy can survive.

gccs14r 4 years, 1 month ago

I learned to tell time and tie my shoelaces. I could already read, so that wasn't a big deal. My trouble with the clock was that both hands were big, and both hands were little, just in different ways, and that neither one was actually a hand. I think we settled on the long skinny hand and the short fat hand, and ignored that they weren't hands.

oldvet 4 years, 1 month ago

If you beat the crap out of the bully, he will leave you alone... if you can't do it alone, you get some friends, corner him, then beat the crap out of him, and he leaves all of you alone...

misplacedcheesehead 4 years, 1 month ago

Marion, you are too funny! What did I glean from kindergarten? 1) Boys are gross. 2) 1969 had too many five yr.olds; our class met in a church. Yes, was a public school. 3) Never, ever feed the goldfish the entire container of food. 4) Do not practice printing your name in black magic marker on the upright piano in the classroom. It will still be there at conference time. 5) Do not lie and say it's your birthday when it's not, just to get treats. 6) Peeing your pants is a very effective way to go home to Grandma if the day is unbearably boring. 7) Don't tell embarrassing stories about your aunt. Your teacher could be married to her college professor!!

bearded_gnome 4 years, 1 month ago

wasn't quite kindergarten, was maybe 1st or 2nd grade.

guy I used to play with on recess, mexican kid. he died of jondas. I had to be told what that meant and why he kinda changed color. I had to be told what dead meant. I think that was the first real school sadness I'd felt. I wish I could remember his name now.

misplacedcheesehead 4 years, 1 month ago

Wiish I could have gone to Catholic school( even though I was Lutheran), because in kindergarten, I thought nuns really could fly! Darn you, Sally Field.

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