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

On Jul 19, 2:51=A0pm, "Donna Metler" <dmmet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
> And yes, there are, every single year, children who
> cry and have a very, very hard time the first few days who ARE ready for
=
K.
> But would they have been ready to do for a stranger, or to sit down and
t=
ake
> a paper/pencil test or a formal *****sment with mommy out of the room,
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en
> they went in for an hour or so visit and orientation? It seems unlikely.
> Warming up to strangers and strange situations is a personality test,
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 a
> measure of intelligence or academic readiness.

I was the oldest in the class (November baby in a class with a Nov. 1
cutoff), and had been to preschool (which was unusual in those days),
and I threw a fit every day for ages when I started kindergarten. I
still think I should have started a year earlier: couldn't have been
any worse socially, and academically I'd have been less out of synch
(I'd been reading for nearly two years when I started kindergarten).

--Helen