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

Banty wrote:

> And I'm not sure how one can *make* a family that keeps their kid home
an extra
> year to start kindy, take their kid to kindy.  I guess it woudl have to
be a
> truancy thing.

I'm not sure if we can make them, but I think the ones who do it to be 
competitive would not want to do it because they would not want to feel 
their child failed anything.  Sure, they'd hold them back to give them a 
leg up on the competition.  *They* don't mind if they can tell everyone 
their child is not ready, but I doubt they'd want to make it official. 
Now, if they did it and not made it official, they'd be afraid of it 
*appearing* to be official to everyone, since most kids being red****rted 
then would have been tested.

I don't think it should be a mark against the child to be red****rted, I 
just think that is how it would be perceived by a competitive parent.  I 
think there are plenty of parents who would welcome a test, because it 
is a struggle to decide if they should red****rt their child.  It is the 
parent who would do it unnecessarily who might be discouraged.

As for truancy, that would be a problem, but I don't think it would need 
to be enforced.  Just put a law on the books and test most kids and let 
*appearances* do its work on the competitive parents.