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The Littlest Redshirts Sit Out Kindergarten
New York Times
After all those attentive early childhood rituals — the flashcards, the Kumon, the Dora the Explorer, the mornings spent in cutting-edge playgrounds — who wouldn't want to give their children a head start when it's finally time to set off for school? Suzanne Collier, for one. Rather than send her 5-year-old son, John, to kindergarten this year, the 36-year-old mother from Brea, Calif., enrolled him in a "transitional" kindergarten "without all the rigor." He's an active child, Ms. Collier said, "and not quite ready to focus on a full day of classroom work."
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