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[quote=Anonymous][quote]When I was 5 in the first grade, I recall the older children starting to notice we were different ages. By the time we reached third grade, younger children and older children began segregating themselves, based on the fact the older children had lower scores and anwered questions more slowly in class. Without anyone ever saying it, it was clear many of the much older children were not as bright academically and they had some social shortcomings. I remember older children losing interest in school, because they were not being accomodated appropriately, too.

I see it at my daughter's school, too. Kids know who the slower, older children are; and they talk about it. Like it or not, no matter what you teach or preach at home, children have a world and life outside of you.

Realist [/quote]

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What do you propose should be done with older students in classrooms who are not quite as accomplished as their younger peers?

Expulsion, demotion to a lower grade, hold them back a year or two, teach them,  put them in a separate school for old dummies, kick them out of your child's classroom?

On second thought, what if the under-accomplished child is the same age as your child?  [/quote]

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