[blindkid] repeating an early year

[Joy Orton]

Hi,
Marie wrote that Jack will do another year in preschool, and Carol wrote
that Serena repeated a year of preschool.

Our daughter spent two years in kindergarten. She took public school
preschool, and our district would not let us repeat preschool, but they let
us do two years of kindergarten.

The kindergarten teacher was not sure about that, because she said our
daughter had mastered the kindergarten curriculum.
She spent more time on braille instruction during the second year, and her
reading is great now (third grade).

I think we probably needed a little more communication about what she was
supposed to be working on.
Sometimes when the other kids were playing, she had to do her classroom work
that she had "missed" when working with the TVI.
Near the end of the year I found out she was missing some of the social
interaction time working on the curriculum she had supposedly already
mastered.
I wish I had asked more questions earlier about that, but I still think it
was a good decision.

Also, she has a summer birthday, so instead of being one of the youngest in
her grade, she is one of the oldest. That's not bad, in my thinking.

Just my two cents.
Joy Orton