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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teachers teach on grade level and if your child can't keep up, it has nothing to do with the age of the other kids.  I think each child is different. [/quote]

This is not my experience. Teachers at my child's independent school teach above grade level (at least in the lower school) and children are expected to meet those standards. This would be fine, were children not held back for not meeting those standards. It is not expected or appropriate for all 5 year olds to be fluent readers. But if the expectation is that children leave K reading fluently, you have parents who retain children in K or otherwise delay their promotion to first grade because the expectation is that First Graders are reading fluently from the beginning of the year. So parents make choices based on the school environment and expectations, and these are not temporary choices. A child retained because he's not yet a fluent reader doesn't get to "return" to his age-appropriate grade once his brain has made those connections, even if it would be the most appropriate thing for his academic development.

Yes, each child is different, and schools should support that. (The public schools in my area are actually worse about the reading fluency issues than the independent schools are. They will retain a child who is not reading fluently, whereas in the independent schools a parent can refuse the "recommendation" that the child be retained.)[/quote]

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