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Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help
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Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help
Thanks for all the quick response.
Teacher mentioned that our kid is having difficulty in moving from task to task without teacher assistance. Based on following rules in our county , it seems to me that parents will not have a big say in deciding whether to hold the child or not. Teachers in the previous two schools (Pre-K and school before transfer) rated her the best in the class. Based on that plus her reading,writing,math skills i dont see any need of holding her in KG. According to the county school district rules - [Social-emotional or physical development should not be used as the sole criteria for retention or placement. Placement decisions will be made on an individual basis. If a student is retained in Kindergarten, written documentation of evidence supporting the decision will be on file in the student's permanent record. Every effort should be made to consult with the child's parent(s) or guardian(s) about the placement; however, the school principal will have the final authority for placement decisions. The student's parent(s) or guardian(s) will be notified of the final placement decision.] Thanks again |
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Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help
"Galbo" wrote in message om... Hi, My child is going to kindergarten in Cobb county , Georgia USA. I have a feeling that the teacher is going to ask or recommend us to get the kindergraten repeated. I think that "I have a feeling" is not good enough. You really need to communicate with the teacher and the principal. I would try to set up a meeting with the teacher as soon as possible. Can anyone tell me whether its upto the teacher only or Parents have a say whether your kids go to 1st grade or not. It is not whether you have a say or not that is most important. It is, given your daughters' level of maturity and rediness for first grade and the available resources at hand (teachers, school funding, etc.), what is the best place for your daughter to be next year? My observation is that teacher is not very friendly with the kids and that is pritty much what my child thinks but has never complained for the teacher. It sounds like you might want to talk more with your daughter about how she feels about the teacher. I can't tell whether you have talked with your daughter about this or not (from the context below, I suspect you did). She turned 5 yrs, 2 weeks before cut off date which is September here in Georgia. Teacher informed us that she is having lots of problems moving from one task to another but she is young. I dont see any benefit of repeating the kindergarten for social skills which i think she will pick up anyway as she grows. Again, I would work with the teacher with this. If she is having problems with social skills, perhaps working together you can help her get ready for first grade, regardless of whether it is this fall or next. At this late stage of kindergarten i dont see any point requesting change of class. Even otherwise, the teacher is expecting lot of work done in the class compared to other kindergarten clases which is a good thing. We switched school and in the previous school we were told that she is ready for 1st grade just after few months in the school. She is always excited to go to school and i think she is pritty well mixed up with the kids. And she seems quite upset when i told her that you might have to stay in kindergarten, I have a feeling it will have only negative impact if she repeats kindergarten and all the kids in her class move to 1st grade. Apparently, you are getting two different stories from different sets of educators. It could be that they have different expectations, the present teachers were able to see your daughter more frequently and able to make a better assessment of the situation or something has changed. I am wondering if what changed is that you recently moved, and the problems that your daughter was experiencing is more related to changes and stresses that come with moving. If this is the case, your daughter should be doing better socially as time goes by. She might also have been distracted for a while after the move, which could have affected her ability to concentrate, change tasks, etc. I have seen she is doing quite well in the reading,math etc and i have stopped teaching more advance things thinking it will put too much pressure on her when its not really needed for KG or even 1st grade curriculum. The bottom line is that you have to talk with the teacher and find out what is really happening and how you could work together with the school. Jeff Please give your opinion... Thanks galbo |
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Socialization as a test of school readiness (was: Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help)
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Socialization as a test of school readiness (was: Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help)
LisaBell wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:58:21 EST, (Herman Rubin) wrote: Unless the reason is lack of mental ability, there is NO reason not to go on. School should be for learning, not for socializing. That was my take on things, but I'm having similar issues with my DD and her K teacher has recommended hedging our bets and registering for a second year of K as well as 1st grade next year, with the basic reason being socialization issues. Both of my sons have fall birthdays (Sept and Oct) in a district with a Dec. 1 cut-off for starting Kindergarten. Both started kindergarten at age 4. The older boy is now in 7th grade, the younger in 3rd. Our older son sounds very much like your daughter. He is very smart, very coordinated, fairly shy and sensitive. We got mixed advice about starting kindergarten, some teachers said boys should just always be held back, others said he was clearly ready. We went ahead. His first two years he was in a mixed K-1 class. He excelled academically, socially it was a little rough. He was slow to join into games and playground activities. He spent most of those two years sitting by himself at recess (broke my heart). Any criticism or attention in class could bring on tears. His teacher didn't see these as serious problems and noted that he was young and sometimes acted young, but generally was doing alright. He gradually did better in 2nd grade, and since then has had no problems. He still does well academically, he is still a little hesitant in new situations, a little over-sensitive, but now has a wide circle of friends. He enjoys school and life. We tried to cultivate a few individual friendships, inviting boys over to play one-on-one. As much as I dislike Scouting, being in Cub Scouts got him involved with a small group of boys, and he joined the school chess team which also exposed him to kids with similar interests and personalities. Son #2 was also academically ready for school and much more outgoing and adventurous. His problem has been some hyperactivity and lack of focus. He literally does not sit at all during the school day. He is very easily distracted (made worse by the fact that he is bored to tears). He tends to be more the class clown type, being silly, talking out of turn, sometimes being a little bit of a smart aleck or show-off when he thinks he knows more than the teacher (which this year is sometimes literally true). I'm hoping that he can get into a more challenging class next year and that the teacher will find ways to channel that energy. He is also a little bit of a social outlier, but not nearly as bad as his brother. He has 2-3 pretty close friends, and seems to do well with them. But in one family with boys 18 months apart, he gets along better with the younger one (a grade lower) then the older (in his grade). I think this has more to do with both being second kids than age, though. In the end, I don't regret sending either one. Chris |
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Socialization as a test of school readiness (was: Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help)
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:30:37 -0500, LisaBell wrote:
snip DD will be 6 in September - 3 months short of the January 1st cutoff. However, it appears that many of her peers have been held back and she is now considered quite young to be entering school, so every aspect of her behaviour is being scutinized. At the beginning of this year she entered a pre K/K class in which the older children had already been together for a year and had formed fast friendships. She now seems to be having trouble breaking into these groups, and her teacher points out that she tends to play with the younger (pre-k) girls in her class. Being a fairly shy and non-assertive kid doesn't help. We are also told that she finds situations where she is required to perform in front of her peers (being exposed to their ridicule) very difficult, and sometimes refuses to participate. She seems to have no such issues in out of school ballet and music classes. snip I'm very interested in hearing views of educators and other parents, especially those who have experience with kids who were having a hard time socially on entering 1st grade. --Lisabell Mom to Gabriella (5.5) and Michaela (4) It sounds to me like a problem with the social situation, not a socialization problem. There's a huge difference. It sounds like she hasn't had a problem getting along with kids outside of the classroom, and you didn't mention any red-flag behaviors, so she's probably developing social skills just fine. I've always found it rather rediculous that most schools expect kids to be friends with everyone of their same age and sex, but no one else. If this is the main reason the K teacher wants to hold her back, then go ahead and put her in first grade. IMHO, when teachers and parents teach little ones that they have to be friends with everyone, when what they usually mean is that they should be civil to everyone, they set their kids up to be vulnerable to peer pressure when they're older. Just my 2 cents. Susan |
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Socialization as a test of school readiness (was: Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help)
"LisaBell" wrote: Her K teacher seems to think that a further year in K will make her more confident and assertive, and argues that these are important tools for school entry. I remain unconvinced. I would be too. It's very likely that the teacher is misdiagnosing her, possibly causing her to set an important area of her life back a full year. It sounds suspect. I'd try to get an unbiased second opinion from a professional. P. Tierney |
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Socialization as a test of school readiness (was: Teacher asks child to repeat kindergarten, Please help)
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LisaBell wrote: We are also told that she finds situations where she is required to perform in front of her peers (being exposed to their ridicule) very difficult, and sometimes refuses to participate. If a teacher allows ridicule to occur in the classroom, I would think that s/he was a poor teacher. And I see NO point, if a child is covering the work, to holding them back. A bored child is unlikely to be "well-socialised" by the experience! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Life is like a cigarette -- smoke it to the butt." -- Harvie Krumpet |
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