Kindergarten Debate

The findings in the alriticle Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril by Sam Wang are similar to those found in Malcolm Gladwell's in Outliers . Both writers believe that "redshirted" students are somewhat at a disadvantage . They also believe that seperating the 2 different groups (younger and older kids) could place the students in a learning environment that could help them to learn/achieve more, alongside other students that have similar learning strategies . I agree with Gladwell's concept of "accumulative advantage" . I agree, because older kids, like stated in a chapter of the book Outliers, are more physically able than younger kids are, therefore, getting themselves somewhat of an advantage in things such as sports . While the younger kids are at a disadvantage, because they will always be put in the "lower groups" . An example would be in Outliers, the younger kids that played Hockey would be automatically put in the lower group, while the older kids would be seperated into the more advanced group, neither one of them really judging on the talent that they really had . As stated in Wang's article, "[...] Physical maturity allows older kids to perform better ."