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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people are interested in knowing their child's achievement, the appropriate measure is a milestone matrix or standardized testing.  I wish people would stop trying to compare their kids to others around them.  We should be minding our own business and not competing with others.[/quote]

The issue is when classroom teachers expect certain performance from their students, based on the class they happen to have that year.

If very few of the children can form letters and space words correctly, then the teachers will slow down and reteach handwriting for example.  But if you have a class full of mostly older children, you might not have so many children who can't do that; so it is natural for a teacher, especially a new one, to think that all kids in her class should be able to do something ... and the few younger children just can't keep up -- even if they are the right age for their grade.

Many times I have read on this forum of parents with children who were receiving criticism from classroom teachers for being immature, when in fact they were just young for their grade, but correctly placed -- but the grad had many red shirted children in it, making the teacher not realize how much younger the child was compared with the rest of his grade peers.
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