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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a kindergarten teacher in MD and it's nearly impossible now to hold back a student in kindergarten. We provide so many interventions starting in kindergarten but even kids who spend the entire year and only know 4 letter names and 3 sounds at the end of it are sent to first grade.

I sat down with the first grade teachers today to discuss something else and they wanted to talk about certain kids. I named every single kid on their list before they gave it to me. We basically ended up with Tier 4 interventions with these kids. I was providing one-on-one tutoring to many of them but they wouldn't test them and they wouldn't retain them. Now they are totally lost in first grade. They will either tune out (this is most of them) because they have no idea what's going on or become the class clown to detract attention from themselves. This will be their school trajectory throughout the years. Nobody listens to use until 2nd grade (at the earliest). By then, those kids know they are very behind and are embarrassed. [/quote]

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