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

Banty wrote:
> In article <rKudnQ2gJJg2yhzVnZ2dnUVZ_srinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, toypup
says...

>> Honestly, my opinion is that there is a test for skipping grades, make
a 
>> test for red****rting.  There are kids who need it, but only kids who
need it 
>> should be red****rted.  My guess is some of these competitive parents
(not 
>> all are competitive, but it can get that ways some places) wouldn't 
want 
>> their kid to be officially declared not ready for school by anyone but 
>> themselves and will stop with the red****rting already. 
> 
> Good idea.  How to enforce, though?  Without perhaps having truant
officers
> appear at five and six year old's doors.  Also, what of kids like my son
with a
> teacher happy and eager to testify as to his need to be red****rted.
> 
> Banty
> 

I think it ought to be an objective test, not someone's opinion.  After 
all, when I was a kid, my kindy teacher wanted me held back.  She was 
actually racist, which I didn't realize until I was an older (and my 
parents didn't know, because they didn't see her in class).  I've had 
teachers I didn't mesh with and that don't care for me so much, but 
she's the only one I'd call racist.  This was Texas during the Vietnam 
war, everyone was caucasian, except me (Vietnamese) and one African 
American child and she hated both of us, especially me.  At any rate, I 
understand that we can't have it based on one teacher's opinion, because 
s/he could be heavily biased.

I think if there were testing required to red****rt kids, the competitive 
parents wouldn't want to red****rt their kids for fear that other parents 
or the teachers would think their child tested as not very bright.  They 
wouldn't even want to ****rk the law and not test and keep their kids 
home for a year for fear of how it would appear.