Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

Nikki wrote:
> hschinske@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> On Jul 18, 9:48 am, Banty <Banty_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think it's a problem of a few judicious cases - it's a
>>> problem of widespread practice with social forces going in that
>>> direction. Else it wouldn't be borne out in these studies.
>>>
>>> Banty
>>
>> Exactly. I think we agree -- and from what I've heard, I wouldn't
>> consider your son's old teacher to have been particularly judicious.
>>
>> Helen
>
> I agree.
>
> The problem we are also dealing with is that when it becomes soooo
> common the typical age really is a young age.  My kid was born in
> April so nearly 5.5yo when he started kindy.  He was the youngest boy
> in the class.  He repeated a grade and he is the oldest of course but
> there are a few in there with him.
>
> Socially he was drowning but the struggle with academics is what
> instigated the repeated grade.  Of course we now know that LD's caused
> that and repeating doesn't cure LD's.  Socially it is 90% better,
> which might have made the repeat worth it but that might also be due
> to treating the ADHD. Hard to know and we can't see the future to
> judge how highschool goes.
>
> The kid that was red-****rted is the oldest boy in his class. Ugh.  He
> didn't even need it!! High school is going to take some serious
> planning to be successful.

I know some twins who were almost double red-****rted in that they missed
the 
cutoff by only a couple of months but because they were a real handful and

their pre-school teacher recommended they repeat that year they ended up 
being 23 months older than the youngest girl in their Prep (kindergarten) 
year. They are big kids, too, and more rumbunctious than they would have 
been starting with kids their own age! I'd not have been thrilled as a 
parent of any of the children who had turned 5 in the last three or four 
months of the school year, either.

These boys are 6 months younger than my average height and weight son, as 
tall but heavier, and two full school years behind him.  They'll always be

bigger, stronger and more sophisticated than their classmates and I think 
they' could have a very rough time in highschool - which starts at grade 7

here, btw.

>
> The other two are April b-day too.  I wish they were born in October.
> Turn 6 right after starting.