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

On 21 Jul 2008 04:16:07 -0700, Banty <Banty_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>Personal experience.  I went to school at 4.  This had to do with
>>*wanting* to go, a promise from my dad and the local Catholic School's
>>saying yes.   Academically, I was advanced and had no problem keeping
>>up.  In elementary school, I was bored enough to read books during
>>class behind my work and to finish work early.  My elementary school
>>grades were all As.   In middle school, however, the social scene came
>>into play and I was a very unhappy kid in junior high.  All the other
>>girls were into *boys* and I was not.  High school was also an unhappy
>>time socially, though less so than middle school.  Academically, I
>>still did well, though I didn't make much effort and consequently was
>>not in the most advanced cl***** I could have taken.  I graduated HS
>>just after turning 17 and was very happy to go on to college.  
>
>That's pretty much *my* story.  Except for the detail that it was a
Baptist
>primary school was willing to take me early, then when I entered 2nd
grade after
>a transfer the Texas public schools were obliged to let me continue.
>
I transferred to public school in second grade too.  My parents
decided that our Catholic school was not very good at math and science
so they transferred me.  I imagine that since I was academically
advanced, there was no way the public school could have retained me
either.

>Consider, though, if a lot of the awkwardness was from being a *smart*
kid, and
>furthermore a smart *girl*.

I don't think that was the case really.  Our junior high did have
*tracks* and I was in the higher track.  But I was still a child as
the other kids were getting to be more *adolescent.*  High school was
simply not that interesting.  I would rather have been studying what I
wanted to study on my own.  I never made trouble though and was an
honor roll student with *some* privileges because of my grades.




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