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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several middle-aged adult men who "failed" kindergarten back in the day and repeated. They are all now intelligent, contributing members of society. Red-shirting is simply taking away that year of "failure" by putting off K for a year.

"Redshirting" for sports reasons may be new, but holding kids back for academic or, more likely, social maturity reasons is not.[/quote]

I don't think this is the problem.  Most Moms who held their kids back, then put their kids in Kumon, or private tutoring, or do extra workbooks at home so they will be challenged.  If your child is mature enough that they can sit still and concentrate long enough to do reading and/or math past the Kindergarten level, why do you think they are not mature yet?  It takes concentration to count to 100, to read even a level 1 book, and if you child can do that, they can manage K.

also, why did these adult men 'fail' Kindergarten back in the day, when K was only half-day, and not much was expected of us? We just painted, sang songs, listened to story time, had recess, just like preschool these days. How did they fail that?  I don't know anyone that failed Kindergarten.  I peed in my pants in class, and didn't speak one word the entire year according to my report card(I was shy), but I still passed.  I see why a child might fail these days because kids do academic work, but still, the only time a kid fails is because they have a developmental delay that keeps the kid from keeping up with the class, they don't keep kids back for maturity.  If a kid is misbehaving, that kid has a behavior problem, not a maturity problem.

Why do people think that even if their kid can read chapter books, they will still be challenged because they will learn so many social skills, but they are learning the social skills of kids up to and over a year younger than them, how is that helpful?[/quote]

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