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[quote=Anonymous]It occurs to me reading through this thread -- and all the other blah blah blah threads about redshirting -- that there is a lot of pining for the old days when kids went to school when the school district dictated and not when they were ready.  Its similar to the pining about the old days when we didn't recognize and treat ADHD.  Maybe for very typical kids the old days were fine.  But for a child with any kind of variation in development, the old days were a nightmare.  I know because I have sibs who never recovered from the elementary school setbacks.  We ALL knew kids like that  -- the ones whom we called spazzes, or dummies.  The world is a hell of a lot better for these kids now because we are flexible and attentive to developmental differences.  And you may smugly think this somehow hurts your typically developing child, but you are wrong.  ALL of our kids benefit when the children who are in the classroom are ready to learn, and given the support so that they can learn.  As the parent of two children with ADHD, and one with Aspergers, i can tell you that I am so grateful for the changes that have occurred.

And for those of you who say, as is always the case in these discussion, "well we aren't referring to kids with diagnosed disorders," (1) you really have no idea which kids have a diagnosis.  I can tell you that because I have one child who travels completely under the radar.  And one reason you don't know is because of this new flexibility, and (2) there are differences that don't rise to the level of an actual diagnosis.  That doesn't mean the challenges aren't real, and (3) ADHD is often diagnosed later in elementary school, so that the child whose parents thought he just wasn't ready for kindergarten may turn out to have a ADHD.[/quote]

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