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Is there anywhere that divides up their younger grade classes into who is born in the first half of the educational year and who is born in the second half? Tha

by drpgq 11y ago

Is there anywhere that divides up their younger grade classes into who is born in the first half of the educational year and who is born in the second half? That could help somewhat although the teacher of the second half kids probably is going to have a tough time.

DanBC 11y ago
England has very recently allowed summer born children to defer. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389448/Summer_born_admissions_advice_Dec_2014.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-summer-born-children-get-right-to-delay-start-of-school http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-... It's a bit confusing.
- jeffwass 11y ago
  I don't see how that solves the issue, as it just moves (w/ optionality) the cutoff from 1st Sep back a few months. Meaning if everybody opted in, the spring kids would become the youngest in class, instead of late summer kids. Edit - I see this helps ensure kids don't start Reception (ie, the equiv of Kindergarten in the US) too early. But it also shifts the point of youngest back a few months, so in later years, the kids born in spring season will be the least mature in class, and judged in this regard relative to the others.
  - ryandrake 11y ago
    Exactly, it just changes which group of students are in the "too early" group. When I start a new job, they don't say, "Well, your job offer was made on 12-May, but our fiscal year starts in April, so you'll have no choice but to wait until 1-Apr to start work." The solution likely involves abandoning the model of childhood education consisting of fixed, arbitrarily-long cycles beginning on arbitrarily-chosen dates, progressing linearly. But when you leave it up to voters, abandoning "The Way Things Were Always Done" is about as impossible as curing cancer.
- nommm-nommm 11y ago
  In the US this practice is known as redshirting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic)

by drpgq 11y ago

DanBC 11y ago

England has very recently allowed summer born children to defer. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389448/Summer_born_admissions_advice_Dec_2014.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-summer-born-children-get-right-to-delay-start-of-school http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-... It's a bit confusing.

jeffwass 11y ago
I don't see how that solves the issue, as it just moves (w/ optionality) the cutoff from 1st Sep back a few months. Meaning if everybody opted in, the spring kids would become the youngest in class, instead of late summer kids. Edit - I see this helps ensure kids don't start Reception (ie, the equiv of Kindergarten in the US) too early. But it also shifts the point of youngest back a few months, so in later years, the kids born in spring season will be the least mature in class, and judged in this regard relative to the others.
- ryandrake 11y ago
  Exactly, it just changes which group of students are in the "too early" group. When I start a new job, they don't say, "Well, your job offer was made on 12-May, but our fiscal year starts in April, so you'll have no choice but to wait until 1-Apr to start work." The solution likely involves abandoning the model of childhood education consisting of fixed, arbitrarily-long cycles beginning on arbitrarily-chosen dates, progressing linearly. But when you leave it up to voters, abandoning "The Way Things Were Always Done" is about as impossible as curing cancer.
nommm-nommm 11y ago
In the US this practice is known as redshirting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic)