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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two boys with June birthdays.  I redshirted one and not the other based on their needs at the time.  Personally, I think there should be a lot more fluidity in grade placement, and grouping kids based on age leads to a lot of unnecessary work for teachers, too much competition between streets, and strains resource programs.[/quote]

This makes zero sense.  Grouping with large age gaps creates more work as kids with a two year age span are in very different places developmentally.  Holding back a June child makes zero sense.  I  hope you got your child evaluated and into therapy if they were having developmental issues.[/quote]

Why would kids all be in exactly the same place developmentally just because they are born in the same year? 
And, of course, my child was in therapy and all that jazz, which was ridiculous.  All he needed to do was get a little older.  He is in eighth grade now, and he is doing fine after homeschooling for the last two years.  He really didn’t need years of work that was too difficult for him, and would have been much better off if he could have repeated second grade.

On the flip side, my current second grader knows his multiplication tables and can do long division.  He really doesn’t need two more years of adding and subtracting.  He would be happier doing third or fourth grade work.

There are kids in second grade who can hardly read, and kids who are reading long chapter books and writing paragraphs.  How can you say that they are developmentally in the same place?  Of course they aren’t.  Putting these kids all in the same class together just creates work for the teacher (having to come up with multiple lesson plans) and competition amongst students (where someone has to lose).  [/quote]

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