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Possible little difficult child in the making or is it just normal 4 year old behavior?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 386156" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Janet, I completely agree with DDD's recommendation to have her tested for readiness. I wish I had done that with my easy child when we moved from NY to CT. Because she had completed kindergarten, they naturally enrolled her as a 1st grader. Thing was, she wasn't ready for it and we ended up holding her back in 2nd grade. It wasn't a big deal, she simply wasn't ready and each year for two years, the school kept on pushing her to fall in line with the other students in her classes. I later discovered that most of the kids in her classes were between 7months to 1 year in age ahead of her - no wonder she wasn't on the same level as her peers. When we held her back, it was an amazing thing! She immediately was at home and did wonderful! And, incidentally, it wasn't until after the evaluation process and retention was in place that the principal of the school said to me, "It's too bad you didn't request some readiness testing when you moved her before placing her in 1st grade..." Well, duh. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #483d8b">Suggest the readiness testing now - don't waste anymore time. These schools and their teachers have deadlines and quotas to meet and they want kids who easily conform to classroom schedules, etc. If Keyena is being singled out as being a nuisance, you want to clear up any misconceptions about her behavior being deliberate and I would also want to avoid her being labeled at such a young age. Even if it is an attentional issue - it may be an attentional issue in relation to her age against her classmate's ages; it may be that she's just in with the wrong kids. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 386156, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Janet, I completely agree with DDD's recommendation to have her tested for readiness. I wish I had done that with my easy child when we moved from NY to CT. Because she had completed kindergarten, they naturally enrolled her as a 1st grader. Thing was, she wasn't ready for it and we ended up holding her back in 2nd grade. It wasn't a big deal, she simply wasn't ready and each year for two years, the school kept on pushing her to fall in line with the other students in her classes. I later discovered that most of the kids in her classes were between 7months to 1 year in age ahead of her - no wonder she wasn't on the same level as her peers. When we held her back, it was an amazing thing! She immediately was at home and did wonderful! And, incidentally, it wasn't until after the evaluation process and retention was in place that the principal of the school said to me, "It's too bad you didn't request some readiness testing when you moved her before placing her in 1st grade..." Well, duh. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b]Suggest the readiness testing now - don't waste anymore time. These schools and their teachers have deadlines and quotas to meet and they want kids who easily conform to classroom schedules, etc. If Keyena is being singled out as being a nuisance, you want to clear up any misconceptions about her behavior being deliberate and I would also want to avoid her being labeled at such a young age. Even if it is an attentional issue - it may be an attentional issue in relation to her age against her classmate's ages; it may be that she's just in with the wrong kids. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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