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- LETTERS, Page 6Being a Child for One More Year
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- Your article "The Redshirt Solution" (EDUCATION, Nov. 13),
- concerning the practice of delaying a child's entrance into
- kindergarten, contained quite a commentary on American
- education and on American life in general. Kathy Hewson stated,
- "By keeping our son back last year, we gave him a gift. We
- allowed him to be a child for one more year." How sad that once
- our youngsters go off to kindergarten, they are no longer
- allowed to be children.
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- Joan Rocchetta East Setauket, N.Y.
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- The idea of redshirting children was distressing for those
- of us who still consider nursery school an option rather than
- a requirement. Aside from the questions it raises about the
- qualifications of those deciding who is ready for kindergarten
- and who is not, and what effects redshirting will have on the
- child who from then on will be the oldest in the class, the
- article poses another problem for the financially squeezed
- family: Who is to pay for all this preschool?
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- Martha Balkin Vestal, N.Y.
-