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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families should leave DCPS

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/early-childhood/maryland-redshirting-kindergarten-E3477RWX6ZA7HHBSY3J3UD7IEU/[/quote]

No one has a gun to your head. But while DCPS is flawed, I think contrary to your belief this is not an issue for most parents. And in fact I think a lot of people see this as something DCPS gets right.

Now I think there should be less social promotion in later grades, but frankly even that NYT article says redshirting for the sake of boys is really something that's beneficial in older grades. It's the early test scores that are improved by kindergarten redshirting not the social emotional well being.[/quote]

If kids aren't prepared to go to K, maybe we should be looking at what we are doing as a culture, parents, educators and our preschools.  We have a young for the grade child with a fall birthday who had delays.  Knowing that we got help starting at 18 months and did it intensively through ES.  We picked more academically focused preschools to make sure our child had the academic and social skills needed.  If my developmentally delayed (significant) 4-year-old, almost 5 could go on time, why can't kids with no identified special needs?  If anything, the structure of school and academics helped with the developmental delays.  This is a poor reflection on preschools if they are not preparing kids, especially the private ones.  This is a poor reflection on parents if they don't teach their kids the basic skills to be in a classroom by age 5 or work with them on basic academics if their preschools aren't.  If a kid has learning disabilities, starting them at 6 or later is a bad idea as they miss out of a year of remediation and support.  The older a child is, the harder it is to remediate and they are behind their peers and a year older which impacts self-esteem.[/quote]

+1. My late July boy with an IEP went on time and it was probably his best year in school. He learned an incredible amount. DCPS purposefully keeps K class sizes small (20-25) and has a full time aide in each class; and they invest in a strong phonics curriculum. A parent who claims their non-SN isn’t “ready” is just being obtuse or maybe thinks their privileged child is too precious to actually have to learn to read and write at 5. I have some empathy for undiagnosed SN kids that start K with no IEP - but that’s why it is good to be on top of it. An affluent Lafayette family has no excuse. [/quote]

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