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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm newish to balto and the first time I heard this term I laughed out loud.  It's just a fancy word for "held back," thrown around by schools to placate parents and ensure the next great generation of lacrosse superstars.  It probably helps kids academically because, HELLO, they are a year older and received an additional year of school.  I don't begrudge the parents their "pre-first year" because they pay a lot of money for it, but to imply that it's anything other than a fancy way to pad the nest for a kid who probably isn't all that stellar academically, is pretty ridiculous. [/quote]

Welcome to Baltimore.

Sure, the kids at Gilman and Bryn Mawr are doing PF because they're kinda slow. :lol: :lol:[/quote]

Part of it, I suspect, is that they want first graders to follow multi-step directions independently. They judge, perhaps with merit, that the younger set of students are often not ready.

If that is the case, Pre-First is, fact, a good idea.

Perhaps it is also an indication that these schools are invested in saying their students perform "two grades ahead," and this requires expectations so high that they in fact need the student's ages to weight older. In other words, the expectations are good at stretching students, but they're also over-ambitious.[/quote]

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