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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When curriculum appropriate to older children is shoved down to younger children, big surprise!!!!  The younger children, geniuses though they are, can't do it. So, they have to start putting older children in the grade to be successful.  True in both public and private.  In the past private schools often returned kids transferring from public who had been skipped, to their proper year level. That's different from the current trend to  just have older children at each grade level. Kindergarten means "children's garden" not math and reading cage.[/quote]

I think this is more due to "red shirting" The ridiculousness of applying that term to a 5 year old highlights the essence of the problem: way too much jockeying and micro-management of what should be a natural right of passage( or used to be) : KDG when you are 5 ! Unfortunately, now it is all about how late can DS aplly so that he shines in relation to the competition....If a child turns 5 in October say, she is SOL for being able to start pre-K that year due how rigid the system has gotten. My DD was reading, but had an early OCt  B-day and had to go to wait a year for pre-K . Our neighbor who's daughter is hyper-active and can't follow directions turned 5 in late Aug. and so is a grade ahead of my child....does this[/quote]

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