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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And why does it anger you so?
Your kid is where you think he should be... so what if there are a few older kids?
Actually, that is embraced by the Montessori method.[/quote]

The difference in a Montessori school is that each child is allowed to progress deep into the areas they are interested in. There is enough attention and structure to support the individual. There is still a pecking order between 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students, with the established students helping out the youn'uns.

The situation is much different in a FCPS classroom, and neither the older child, nor the PP's 4-year old (why is that child in K, I ask?) get the attention they need. Often times, the disservice is also on the redshirted child, who gets bored and in trouble.

The main reason parents do this is to give their kids the edge in terms of classroom participation -- hence a better rating from their teachers in their AAP file. Once they are in AAP, guess what? The main deal with AAP is that it accelerates the curriculum, so now those redshirted kids are right where they should be, but with the better teacher and the cachet of being in an AAP program.

It's a great plan, only many redshirted kids get so bored in their K-2 classrooms that those hoped-for recommendations never materialize...

Would be interesting to analyze and report the age composition of children in each such group... My young Kindergartener is dwarfed by most boys in his classroom... He's a july baby, so redshirting could have been an option without him turrning 7 in K. But he was soooo ready to go! As a montessori parent, I could not simply ignore his open window for learning.[/quote]

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