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My point is this.  How can a system be dumbed down when it is "accelerated" to begin with?  In our day, kids skipped a grade, but the curriculum was more "age-appropriate" in my opinion. Today in this area, pre K is more akin to K in our day and K is more akin to 1st grade in our generation.  So the curriculum already starts the kids off on an accelerated track. All I am saying is that perfectly capable kids are not ready for an accelerated curriculum at 5.  So, if schools are not going to change the curriculum, why not put kids where they fit best academically?  [/quote]

While it sounds reasonable, in practice, it impacts the social and other aspects of the classroom.  Teachers are stretched to meet the wide academic and social needs of the students.  Also, for example, the kids who are red-shirted cannot participate on the grade-wide soccer teams, baseball teams, etc because they don't meet the league cut-offs.  It isolates the kids and also hampers the right age kids from being able to field full teams.[/quote]

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