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

"Barbara" <mom_2_one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 18, 10:55 pm, "toypup" <toy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Nikki" <skavan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > The problem we are also dealing with is that when it becomes soooo 
>> > common
>> > the typical age really is a young age. My kid was born in April so 
>> > nearly
>> > 5.5yo when he started kindy. He was the youngest boy in the class. He
>> > repeated a grade and he is the oldest of course but there are a few
in
>> > there with him.
>>
>> So true. DS is a June birthday against a December 2 cutoff and he was
one
>> of only two boys in class not red****rted. That made him among the 
>> youngest
>> of the class and the second youngest boy.
>>
>> The oldest boy was a mid-December birthday who was red****rted. He is 
>> bright
>> (though not as bright as it would first appear considering his age), 
>> reading
>> at the third grade level when kindergarten started.
>
> I just want to make sure that I'm following you.  The school has a
> December 2 cutoff, so the mid-December kid would have missed the
> cutoff and been one of the oldest in his class inherently.  Then the
> parents held him back a year, so that he'd be nearly 2 years older
> than kids who just made the cutoff?

That's right.  He was nearly 2 years older than the October child.  He
told 
DS he was six at the beginning of the kindergarten year which was in July.

His mother initially told me the whole story several times, along with his

correct age -- the fact that he's 6 (it was October of the kindergarten 
year),  he was red****rted with three other friends so they could all start

together, etc.  Once his birthday came around, I think she became
conscious 
of the fact that she now had a 7 yo in kindergarten who was the absolute 
oldest in the class.  Guess how old he was turning on his birthday?  6! 
The 
fact that she red****rted him was quietly put away and never talked about 
again.  I wonder how the child feels, since he now has to lie about his
age, 
and age is one thing kids are so proud of.

The really sad thing here is I don't think this child was ever near
needing 
to be red****rted.  He's just too bright.  I don't even think he's socially

immature as his mother claims.  I think he gets into trouble because he's
so 
bored.