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i agree. why do you care OP? as long as your child is getting the educational experience you hope for them you really shouldn't care about the others in his class. [/quote]

The point is that children are not getting the educational experience we want.

The education systems are a mess.  The "advanced curriculum" idea has in many cases turned K into 1st grade with a ripple effect on down the line to about 7th grade.  So it's no wonder bright children are being held back one year and some children with completely manageable learning challenges are held back two years.

What, in essence, has happened is that the exception has become the norm.  Of course there are 5-year-olds advanced enough to tackle a 1st grade curriculum, bright kids who are late bloomers, down-the-middle kids and kids with challenges.  But we have this crazy "K is the new 1st grade" mindset that works for a small minority of students and we shove children in here and there to accommodate the system instead of having the system accommodate the children.  We pigeonhole many children before they have had chance to learn the three Rs,

It's nutty.  If you want to play this game your best bet is to have girls with January birthdays!  [/quote]
I think you're completely overstating the situation.  I've got 2 children who have been at 3 different schools.  Age has never been an issue.  At the absolute extreme, I can think of one year when there were 5 children in a grade of 40-50 who had summer (June-Aug) birthdays, and none with earlier birthdays.  And for every one of those "redshirted" children, you'd never have guessed they were held back unless you'd been invited to their summer birthday parties.  You make it sound like some horrible epidemic, but it's really not a big deal in the real world.  [/quote]

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