Is It Possible For A Child To Fail Kindergarten?
My dad and I say that its impossible for a kindergartener to fail Kindergarten. My aunts say it is possible for them to fail because they are now learning more things.
I don’t understand how it would be possible for them to fail because they don’t really do that much. Of course they learn how to read and write and spell but they are 5 years old and I don’t see how they can.
Can you please explain why they can or cannot fail?
there is no such thing like fail in kindergarten! even if they like the worse student in the class or dont read well or etc, they are still wont fail in anything!
come on! tell your aunt that they are just children like u said! we cant simply ask too much from them! they will have their failing problem starts in primary school but no! not kindergarten! if there are such kindys who fail children, then those are the worse kindys ever!
ps, not trying to be smart but it is “kindergartners”, not “kindergarteners”. i was used “kindergarteners” but i just found out it is wrong from my dictionary! lol
Sometimes children are held back in kindergarten because they are immature and would benefit from an extra year to mature and develop social and learning skills. I don’t know if that’s done much any more, but it used to be quite common. The kids who were held back usually were the youngest ones in the class (the ones closest to the cut-off date for that calendar year). Because they are then among the oldest kids in their class the following year, they are more likely to be among the class leaders and they often do quite well with that extra year to mature. Although kindergarteners today often learn what was taught in first grade a generation ago, repeating kindergarten isn’t a matter of failing as much as it is allowing that child an extra year to mature.
Sometimes kids are not ready for kindergarten, they just go because they are old enough, If a teacher thinks it will benefit the child to stay in Kindergarten another year, for maturity, social improvement, and give them a chance to relearn things that were unsuccessful the first time around, the choice is available for the parents to make.
My brother was one of the youngest kids in his Kindergarten class, and he struggled a lot, so the teacher thought it was a good idea to have him stay another year, and that’s what they did.
So, I wouldn’t call it ‘failing’ but it is possible for kids to redo kindergarten.
We don’t really call it failing it’s more called holding them back becuase we feel they aren’t ready for first grade. There are certain standards each teacher must follow including kindergarten. Once you move onto first grade the work becomes harder and if a child cannot handle it they will be unhappy. So a kindergarten teacher must know what the kids are expected to know in kindergarten in order to be prepared for first grade. If they are aren’t prepared she can suggest that they repeat kindergarten or may be get some help for first grade so the child will be able to keep up with the work. Hope this helps.
First of all, it depends on whether kindergarten is required or not. If kindergarten is not required, then you can’t fail it. If kindergarten is required, then it means that you need to pass it in order to go to first grade. If there are things that a child must know in order to get into first grade and the child doesn’t know those things, then they can fail. In my district, 67% of kindergarten students are not prepared for first grade. But, they can’t fail because kindergarten is not required in our state. i wish it were.
There has been some cases of retention in Kindergarten. I know of 2 children in my son’s Kindergarten class who will definately be retained. Better to retain now then wait until in upper grade levels when it effects them more social-emotionally. The children who are retained are often young fives or had other issues such as a disability or in some cases…just a very poor home life and that is what hindered them staying up with the rest of the class…so they are still much behind even by this time of year. They will benefit from repeating Kindergarten. I wouldn’t consider it a “failure”. They just weren’t ready. There is a LOT that is done in Kindergarten…so don’t be fooled with that thought that they don’t really do that much. You’d be amazed of what exactly goes on and the curriculum that the teachers have to follow.
Nope, they can’t fail. They are at a very young age in kindergarten and learn the rest of what they’ve failed to learn in the following years.
Unless they have undiagnosed dyslexia and the teachers fail to recognise it and choose to keep them back because they haven’t learned a SINGLE THING… then, ya…
My friend has a son who is in kindergarten for the 2nd time. When school ended last year he wasn’t reading, writing or knowing numbers well enough to go to 1st grade. Our school year ends in 2 months and this year he’s doing better and gets to go to 1st grade next school year.
children at that age are considered “still developing” so its impossible to fail them
Yes, I know someone who did…they learn things at this stage and it’s better to fail at this age so they can mature more.
MY older cousin did , because she couldn’t read
Children can be asked to repeat kindergarten—and it may happen more often than you’d expect. For better or worse, one of the consequences of a lot of this new standardized testing is that kids are asked to do more at an earlier age. I would say that most children attend preschool before coming to kindergarten so kindergarten is not thought of as a child’s first exposure to school. When I was a kid, you came to kindergarten and were expected to basically learn how to be part of a class. Today, that simply isn’t a luxury teachers can have, to use kindergarten just to learn to be part of a group at school. Today, there are high expectations for children in kindergarten—-they have to learn to read and write and spell, not to mention do math and learn science and social studies. So why would a child be asked to repeat kindergarten? Maybe they start kindergarten not knowing very much and need extra time to catch up (like they don’t know their colors and are slow learning letters and sounds, etc.). The rationale is that repeating kindergarten can benefit kids and minimize social consequences. Maturity levels can vary greatly in kindergarten, as can preparedness—-so that a child who doesn’t turn five until the end of September or in December may have a lot more difficulty adjusting to a classroom than a child who is turn six in kindergarten. Preparedness can also make a huge difference, too. Through absolutely no help of my own except that I chose a good preschool, my daughter entered kindergarten knowing stuff that first graders do in the middle of the year (adding and subtracting using the traditional alogrithim, writing numbers to 100, letter sound correspondence and memorization of a bunch of sight words, etc.). That’s a lot different from a child entering kindergarten not knowing all their colors.