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

In article <u9-dnYM3VtXxhx_VnZ2dnUVZ_sjinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, toypup says...
>
>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.

Ah - good point.  Folks would fear it wuold be assumed their red****rting
was due
to a low test grade, and it would make their pride work *with* the desired
result, rather than *against* it.  That might work, or at least dampen the
tide.

BTW, it fell out of favor for boys to be red****rted in our area.

And, also, based on my sons' results on the second grade Nova tests, his
principal wasn't on board with his teacher's *****sment that he should
repeat. 
So, if a test were there as a more official part of the process, that
would have
stood in the way.

Because even with the test, such recommendations were up to the teacher
only,
and the principal was in a hard spot needing to not oppose his staff too
much.

Banty