the Educational Establishment Strikes again

...and a child will suffer.

Local TV news website has the following headline: "Kindergarten Age Requirement Frustrates Some Parents--One local family has to wait until next year to enroll their son in Kindergarten because he is too young"

Now, because this is a local TV news site, the link takes you to a blank page, so I can't tell you any details beyond that. But my wife and I have talked about this recently. If we surrendered our kids to the Brain Washing Centers Fine Elementary Schools here, Samwise would be starting Kindergarten this year. He wouldn't be laying around reading chapter books when he's bored. He wouldn't be adding two digit numbers, etc. No, because the Gurus have decided that we are to place kids in a grade by age, for socialization purposes, not readiness; to progress them because of age, not ability; and so on, Sam would be behind where he is. Poor kid.

...on second thought the kid is staying out of the hands of the Public School system for another year. He should be breathing a sigh of relief.

On a related note, a friend linked me to this commentary yesterday, "Home Schools Run By Well-Meaning Amateurs: Schools With Good Teachers Are Best-Suited to Shape Young Minds". Now, as he told me, don't skip ahead--read the whole thing right through...right down to the description of the author. Then chuckle.