Letters to the Editor: Don’t underestimate the importance of kindergarten in a child’s development

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To the editor : I really wish this article went into more detail about the whole point of why kindergarten attendance is so important ( “Kindergarten is important, but illness, tears make chronic absenteeism a challenge,” Sept. 22). It’s certainly a heck of a lot more than “Play-Doh and coloring.”

I was privileged to be able to volunteer in three of my grandchildren’s (ages 11, 9 and 7) public school kindergarten classrooms. I spent three hours one day a week for a year seeing first-hand what these young children were learning. Sure, there was some coloring, but they learned all their letters, numbers and punctuation marks. They learned how to add and subtract. They learned abo