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

hschinske@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> 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

My niece also just missed the cut off and it was/has been a great 
disservice to her that she did not start a year earlier.  She is gifted 
in reading.  She is 13yo now.  She would have been a much better fit 
both socially and academically with the girls a year ahead of her.