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[quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the extracurricular activities/system needs to adapt to the curricular activities and not the other way around!

Given the amount of exploding knowledge needing mastering in this 21st century called the information age, employment tends in the new global economy and the increasing life span of man; I think children will be spending more time in school (or learning) and not less.  With technology and social advances more 5-year-old children will be reading in K (not less) in the developed world.  Thus, if your 6 or 7 year-old child can't read by this time he or she may be held back, redshirted (call it whatever you want to call it) or put in an appropriate class for their intellectual development.

At the end of the day, in education, it is far more important to ensure each child gets a stimulating and challenging education commensurate with their ability, aptitude, achievement and performance and NOT a guarantee of being in a classroom of individuals with the same birthdate.

To accomplish this end, there will naturally be a spread of ages in a classroom to account for the variability in maturation and development in early childhood.

One educational or classroom size does not fit all.[/quote]

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