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Why not move the child up to the grade level to which he/she performs? Because we need to be socialized by spending time surrounded by kids our own age. Serio
by cperciva 10y ago
Why not move the child up to the grade level to which he/she performs?
Because we need to be socialized by spending time surrounded by kids our own age. Seriously, that's what they said when I was in elementary school. Eventually the administration allowed me to skip one grade -- but only because I was born in February, and thus only barely younger than the youngest kids in my new cohort.
I'm not a pedagogist so I can't comment on the accuracy of the theory in general, but in my case it was absolutely counterproductive; I was socially closer to my intellectual peers than I ever was to my chronological peers, and rather than "socializing" me, keeping me with kids close to my age merely taught me to treat them with contempt.
- abecedarius 10y agoFurther, it's single-year cohorts that's the big break from almost all of human history. I'd expect associating with a range of ages to be the right thing for socialization.
- qb45 10y ago> I was socially closer to my intellectual peers than I ever was to my chronological peers, and rather than "socializing" me, keeping me with kids close to my age merely taught me to treat them with contempt. I spent my childhood around adults and when I went to school I considered all those age-sorted preschool-processed kids retarded. Childish, status-conscious to the point of absurdity, uninterested in the wider world, so predictable, boring. I sometimes wonder, what choice did they have being locked up with others like them?