Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

"Banty" <Banty_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> But, y'know, flexibility and "gift of time" and moving towards
multi-grade
> classrooms are all aruments that get trotted out to sup****t red****rting.
>
> I read the phrase "gift of time" again after all these years since my 
> son's
> second grade teacher told me it over and over again, recently in a NYT 
> article.
> I was ready to smack my laptop "gift of time" my you-know-what..

It's not so much gift of time as robbing of a year of education.  It means

repeating preschool or kindergarten when the child could have moved on.
all 
for better test scores.  What's the point of having a should-have-been 
fourth grader pass a third grade test?  He should pass it if he's supposed

to be in fourth grade.  Maybe instead of testing by grade, they should
test 
by age.  That could force some of this red****rting to stop.

FWIW, I am not completely against red****rting.  I am against red****rting
all 
boys or red****rting to get a leg up on the competition.  Some kids need
it, 
but it's just out of control here.  The kids who need it here probably
need 
to do it twice just to account for the number who do it and don't need it.