Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD: Study

Re: Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnose... by drpgq on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @11:48AM (#3671766)

I wonder if for elementary schools dividing up classes into kids born from January to June and July to December birth dates would help at all.

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Re: Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnose... by neilk on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @12:47PM (#3672021)

I wonder if dividing kids into groups is even necessary.

I'm not the first person to say this, but lecturing is obsolete, and probably has been since the Xerox machine. Online video is just another nail in the coffin. We can do non-interactive information transfer cheaply.

It seems to me that you could get a similar, or better, education just by making materials available and then having in-class homework sessions with occasional individualized attention. Kids can proceed at their own pace relative to different subjects.

Some time synchronization might be necessary to have examinations to prove that you know the material. Otherwise I don't see the need for it.

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Re: Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnose... by tokenadult on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @02:24PM (#3672404)

I wonder if dividing kids into groups is even necessary.

It is not. There has been a FAQ about this issue up on the World Wide Web since the days before when most people had Internet accounts.

http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html

Dividing children into school classes by birth date is a distinctly bad idea and has never been supported by educational research, but rather is resorted to for administrative convenience.

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