Again, not me saying so, it’s pretty much everyone who’s studied the question in a serious way.
I do realize that, and have long advocated for moving away from age-based grades and toward needs-based classes, similar to what Montessori does. Most kids are fine in age-based grades, but there’s a significant minority who aren’t, and we need to do better at accommodating for them. I have no idea if your grandson is one such child, and wouldn’t presume to guess. The Iowa Acceleration Scale would be the tool we’d use to make a recommendation to parents.
I essentially agree with the studies you’ve linked.
I have just had a completely different experience. It’s colored my view on classroom learning altogether. My kids excelled in the public school they attended. Without excess involvement of educators who wanted to move them around or advise them on appropriate classes to get the best test scores or into this or that university.
I advised them. And they are all well equipped young adults. They have their foilbles and are not perfect.
I call it a success.
I feel like my grandchildren will repeat the success.
I have to say, the COVID lockdowns and homeschooling (my daughter and Dil chose to not do virtual learning because of internet difficulties) proved to us onsight learning is totally not necessary to succeed in education.
No disrespect to teachers. I value them highly.
Sometimes that happens. If your experience is an outlier, it doesn’t invalidate your experience, nor does it mean you have to change your opinion.
For example, I was with a couple of credit unions and they were awful. They were incompetent institutions that kept making mistakes with my balance and at each one I had to go in and make multiple trips to the bank to correct them. And yes, they did fix the problem every time I pointed it out, but not only was it a pain in the ass to have to do it, I don’t trust an organization with my money that can’t keep its bookkeeping straight.
I switched to Bank of America and it has been well over 20 years and I haven’t had a single problem with them. Yet time and again I hear that BoA is awful and that credit unions are better. My experience is the opposite, I will not ever deal with another credit union again despite what other people say, and I will continue to experience a pleasant and worry-free banking experience with my current bank. That doesn’t mean that everyone else is wrong, but neither am I.
As I noted in another Pit thread, I suspect that the poster in question is a banned Doper, returning as a sock. They started posting a lot, instantly, and seemed to be immediately comfortable with how things work around here.
Sure, it’s possible that they’re just very chatty and forward, and ask about weird stuff, but have not actually ever been here before. But, that’s not where I’d put my money.
I lurked, read new and old stuff. A long time. Knew a Doper beforehand. I was never that comfortable at first.
That chatty style and the polls bothered me.
Not to be unfriendly. But I think y’all are right.