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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the law allows for tracking, and for testing to be done for tracking.  A school could well test for proficiency and if the incoming student is several grade levels behind what they consider appropriate, they could put them in that lower grade level.  So if someone had ideas about having their unprepared 4th grader going to a school where they would only be on par with 1st graders, the school could place them in 1st grade.[/quote]

I'm sure that makes sense in your brain, and it sounds like you're making a sincere effort to add to this conversation.  But this is a horrible idea - a 4th grader is 9-10 yrs old.  1st graders are 6-7 yrs old.  Putting a 10 yr old in with 6 yr olds?  Do you have any sense of how that would be for the 10 yr old from a socio-emotional perspective?  And how older kids would see and probably tease that 10 yr old for being in a 1st grade class?  This is a terrible idea.[/quote]

That's the point.  It's a terrible idea to put a 9-10 year old in with 6-7 year olds, but it's also just as terrible of an idea to put a kid with little or no Mandarin proficiency in with an immersion group of kids who are 4 years in.[/quote]

So because the kid is not on fourth grade level Mandarin, Spanish! French, whatever, the kid should be held back academically if she wants to learn a second language. How ridiculous. What if the kid is on grade level or above in English or math. [/quote]

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