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Originally Posted by chaotic13
My school district would argue that point. Kids are being tracked as early as 1st-2nd grade in my district, this is totally BS in my opinion. What kind of valid and reliable measures are the schools doing on 6-7 yr old that are good predictors of academic achievement.
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Chaotic - I believe that this is a fund raising tactic on the school's part. When my twins were in Kindergarden they were both placed in the Title 1/Chapter 1 reading and math programs. Schools get more federal dollars based upon special needs children.
I would like to think that by spending this extra time with them one on one gives them an idea of the child's strengths and weaknesses. But I doubt that this is true. My elder twin was forever being punished in his math class for day dreaming. As it turns out, he was doing the math in his head. They both qualified for "high math" in the 7th grade.
The older twin, still does all these complicated math equations in his head.