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

The only concern with a test is that young children aren't always 
cooperative at showing what they know, especially on a pencil-paper test. 
One reason my DD is going to the pre-K she's going to in the fall is that 
she really seemed to take to the principal and the preschool teacher, and 
was willing to do the computer-based test that they use for K-2 admission 
and do some other things (counting objects, reading a book, adding,
etc)-and 
at some of the other programs, she just plain wouldn't.  And since my DD
was 
not terribly computer literate, doing a computer-based test required 
accommodations (in this case, she sat with the principal and told him what

answer to pick, and then he clicked it for her). I honestly don't know if
it 
was simply how the principal approached her, or whether it was just that
she 
was in a better mood. I know good and well that if DD wants to "play
dumb", 
she's perfectly capable of it-and I think that's typical of most 
preschoolers. Admittedly she was younger than an incoming K student (not 
quite 3 at the time of testing), but I've had enough parents tell me "Oh,
he 
can sing X", and then had the child hide and be unwilling to show me, even

at 4 and 5 to think that it's not a too uncommon occurence.