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Listed below are comments made by shecam between Thursday, 20th November 2008 and Thursday, 20th November 2008.

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Your ideas 10:00pm on 20 Nov 2008 The IFS report released on 24/10/08 hsa brought up again the issue of 'birth penalty' in school admissions regarding summer-born children. I've got an amazing story regarding this- my son is not just the youngest. He also LOST a whole school year when we moved to England from N. Ireland. His birthday is July 28th so, according to the N. Ireland admissions cut-off of July 1st, he started school after his 5th birthday. Primary 1 (equivalent of reception) went well. Then his life became hell. He was put into year 2 on arriving in England and he struggled. No other option was ever considered. He's been through special needs assessment, he's had stress-induced headaches, he's pulled chunks of hair out. He was seen as having developmental delays. He's made fantastic progress though. BUT he'll never catch up on the year 1 basics- the building blocks of foundation learning. To contrast- a child from his primary 1 class moved to England just after us. January birthday so he went to year 1. Am I mistaken in thinking that there is a very grave injustice here? Where's the national curriculum here?

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