Yep we just got started for my kindergartner and it's a disaster so far. It takes constant supervision to get him to do any work. My mother reminded me that I was in half day school through second grade (830-12, including lunch) and she says she made no special effort to enhance my academics after school. This did not stop me from taking all the moderately advanced math I could get my hands on later in school, at least through the end of high school. I also fates decently in writing and reading throughout.

So I am taking a low pressure approach, mostly focused on writing (reading and math are things the child will do without supervision if they come in the form of screen time). I still feel he is severely missing out because K is mostly about socializing, but at least he won't be behind anyone else his age on this front.

There are going to be all kinds of interesting sociology studies on the kids who went through school this year.