Anonymous wrote:My teacher spouse believes it creates fake "gifted" kids. They are accelerated in the early years in school because they start ahead of the other kids having gone through preschool twice (and often in a Preschool 1 then Preschool 2 program). They get easily bored in class and are then pushed into the gifted programs or at the very least given different work.
She says it all catches up with them in HS where she's a teacher (9th grade honors science course). Gifted in ES means they get in the advanced classes in MS and usually do okay, however, they flounder when funneled into the advanced/honors and AP tracks in HS.
Says she gets lots of parents who are very "my kid has NEVER had an issue until now so it is clearly not HIM that is the cause" and refuse to see that their kid isn't actually gifted like they thought.
Anonymous wrote:Retention doesn't give a year. It steals a year. It delays workforce entry by a year. (Retention also increases dropout risk, but setting that aside.)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Probably because they are done with DCUM teacher haters and don’t want to be accused of being “lazy” for being in favor of redshirting. Surely they would only be in favor to make their jobs easier.
FWIW every teacher I know was in favor of redshirting. I asked probably ten teacher friends when we were considering our son with a late July birthday. Only one said not to.
So if they are saying yes to late July, what do you think theyd say for mid June?! I am so confused by all this and have a mid June kid.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Probably because they are done with DCUM teacher haters and don’t want to be accused of being “lazy” for being in favor of redshirting. Surely they would only be in favor to make their jobs easier.
FWIW every teacher I know was in favor of redshirting. I asked probably ten teacher friends when we were considering our son with a late July birthday. Only one said not to.
So if they are saying yes to late July, what do you think theyd say for mid June?! I am so confused by all this and have a mid June kid.
Anonymous wrote:Probably because they are done with DCUM teacher haters and don’t want to be accused of being “lazy” for being in favor of redshirting. Surely they would only be in favor to make their jobs easier.
FWIW every teacher I know was in favor of redshirting. I asked probably ten teacher friends when we were considering our son with a late July birthday. Only one said not to.