Not sure if I'm explaining this well enough. Where I live ... I'm not sure about other states ... there is a cutoff date of Sept.30 for a child to reach his/her 6th birthday before being allowed to advance to the 1st grade. My niece was exTREMEly advanced at 4 years old. When she was 5 we took her to the school, where they said that - since she wouldn't turn 6 until Nov.20th - she had to be tested before they would accept her into the 1st grade. We were not allowed in the testing room; after about 15 minutes they came out and said that she wasn't at 1st grade level. This child knew her ABCs, her numbers 1-100, how to spell and recognize probably over 30 words (I'd taught her myself) ... AND she could read a few books! (Matter of fact, at PreSchool graduation she recited 'The Owl And The Pussycat' ... the enTIRE book ... word for word)! She also knew addition, subtraction and a little multiplication. I don't think I'd taught her division yet. If so, very little. Anyway, I
2007-12-22
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