Redshirting Kindergarten

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I think the age thing should be more a gage - I mean you gotta start some where. One nice thing about my kids' school is they are not hesitate to hold a kid back in pre-school or kindergarten if they feel the child is not mature enough to more on.

There are several children that have been "held back" more because of lack of maturity than academic - although they do look at both. For these kids it definately seemed to help them. We also have at least one case that I know of where I child is a grade ahead of the recommended age. He is the top student in the class and is also mature enough to handle the slight age difference.

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@Linkat,

Linkat wrote:

more on.

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@DrewDad,

Thanks alot - I can't type very well - I need to be held back to improve my typing skills.

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@DrewDad,

Doesn't anybody else see the moral dilemma in this thread's title?

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Redshirt 4509 up, 1555 down love it hate it

May 9, 2009 Urban Word of the Day
Expendable characters. Usually say one line or less before being killed in a plot-convenient manner.
Most often seen in classic 60's Trek.
"Oh no, that Redshirt just fell down the bottomless pit."
"Damn, find me another one."

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/150572

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@tsarstepan,

I don 't remember them using the nomenclature of "red shirt" in Star Trek.
Thay never spoke of "red shirts" or any other color thereof

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

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I don 't remember them using the nomenclature of "red shirt" in Star Trek.
Thay never spoke of "red shirts" or any other color thereof

No, but fans quickly noticed that characters in the "away party" wearing a red shirt usually met an untimely end in the first 15 minutes or so of the show. The term "red shirt" came to mean a doomed minor character.

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@engineer,

engineer wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

I don 't remember them using the nomenclature of "red shirt" in Star Trek.
Thay never spoke of "red shirts" or any other color thereof

No, but fans quickly noticed that characters in the "away party" wearing a red shirt usually met an untimely end in the first 15 minutes or so of the show. The term "red shirt" came to mean a doomed minor character.

Until now, I did not know that.
As I understood it, Security wore red shirts
(but then again, so did Scotty in engineering).

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@OmSigDAVID,

If you want more info, this web site breaks down "red shirt" deaths in great detail.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/images/2008/04/10/insp_expendability.jpg

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I was a Kindergarten dropout; now it can be told.
I decided that I was happier at home. My lethargy overcame my torpor.
I am not sorry, nor have I ever inquired into getting an equivalency diploma.

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