Reply to Should we redshirt for Kindergarten?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Should we redshirt for Kindergarten?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can always elect to repeat kindergarten or first grade.  Be willing to reasses during the year.  My daughter - October birthday - was okay in kindergarten but in spending time helping in the classroom it was clear to us that she was almost always following the lead of the older girls.  We and her teacher kept an eye out and decided to repeat K.  After we made that decision we learned that four other families had decided to do the same thing with their daughters.  Another friend decided to stay and repeat first grade.

Everyone with older kids knows kids who did fine or okay being younger, and kids who clearly suffered. It is very kid specific. I encourage everyone to keep reevaluating their decisions.  Our very good friends considered moving their early starting son to private school and repeating sixth grade.  Their kid has things together now but he is 23.  Middle school and high school were real struggles as he was just less mature than his peers all the way through and that is never fun.

Could the girls have done as well if they had not been held back?  Possibly, but sports became a big thing for all of them.  So, it would likely have been a very different experience.

The extra year for the girls gave them more maturity and confidence.

[/quote]

It is not accurate that you can elect to repeat K or 1st. The only way to do that at our MCPS is if the teacher/school wants you to, which is very, very rare. Parents can't just say "I think DC would do better to repeat."[/quote]

Actually that's exactly what the parents can do. You have a conference with the teacher and then again with the teacher and VP or P and there is paperwork to be done, but parents can call this. I did it for my Sept birthday son so that he repeated 1st grade. He is now finishing 4th grade and it was the best choice for him.[/quote]

Yep - I know two families who have been able to hold their kid back a year in MCPS - because the parent thought it was the best thing.  The school apparently agreed.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics