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

Chookie <ehrebeniuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <Xns9AE27521E41ECenigmaempirenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  enigma <enigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>  the Montessori philosophy is to place children in groups:
>> ages3-6 pre-k/K, 6-8 lower elementary, 8-11 upper
>> elementary, 11-13 jr.high. however, if a child is working
>> on a level with older kids (lower el age doing upper el
>> level work), most Motessori schools will place them in the
>> upper class for advanced work, while having them spend
>> most of their time with their social peers when doing
>> Practical Life, snacks, recess, etc.
> 
> Whoa!  What do you mean by social peers:  age-peers, or the
> kid's friends (of whatever age)?

 well, i couldn't quite figure out what to call the age group 
class the kid should be in by age, so settled on social peers, 
because the US default is to assume kids the same age are 
social peers (not that i agree, but...)
 in Boo's case it wouldn't be his friends, because he doesn't 
really have any in school, but he did like eating lunch with 
the lower el girls (all 3 of them).
 i'm hoping the new school will be better, as far as friends. 
he really seemed to have a much better day there than he ever 
did at the old school, when he went to "try it out". the class 
size was smaller & the teacher seemed far less inclined to let 
things get chaotic (plus there was a better balance of boys & 
girls. his old class had 22 kids, 3 were girls & one of those 
was away on vacation from November to May). 

lee
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