[senco-forum] Re: Backyearing

numerous sound reasons for this course of action. I wonder

From: June Marriott <june_marriott at yahoo.co.uk>
> numerous sound reasons for this course of action. I wonder
> why some of us are so vehemently opposed? 

I wouldn't go that far.

I would say that grouping by birthday has many faults.

My point is if you group some kids according to ability
(social and academic) and not age then all kids should be
grouped this way.

We are considering moving from Beds to Oxfordshire to move
my son away from the Beds Middle school system. The Beds
system essentially means that kids start secondary school
two years early and I don't think little O is ready.

(We wouldn't even consider moving to Bucks with its
antiquated and discriminatory selctive system.)

So I can fully see the points you are making. I would say
that when children are 'backyeared' and it is a great
success you don't know that they wouldn't have been
successful anyway. The same is true of any intervention
though!

--
Mark Norwood
www.avssc.org
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