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From reading the other redshirt thread, it sounded like people who redshirt want their kids to go to kindergarten, but with what they consider to be a more an age appropriate curriculum.[/quote]

If K weren't mandatory, you could keep them in their lovely preschool or at home, or whatever is working for the family, for "Kindergarten" and then start them in First Grade the following year.

I am sympathetic towards the belief that our K curriculum has requirements that are beyond the norms of childhood development. The push for reading, for example, when brain research tells us children will normally learn to read at 4-8, is a mistake and puts pressure on families whose children just aren't developmentally ready for that. But perhaps because of large classes and the institutional devotion to learning through reading, children must be fluent readers by 3rd grade in order to keep up. We are not graduating children from HS who are more thoroughly educated or academically competitive than we were decades ago, so this early push in K trails off. In my experience with my children, first grade duplicated much of what children had learned in K. I believe my children could have skipped K and been successful in first. [/quote]

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