this hits home,and too say the least, I am extremely upset with today&#039;s guidelines as far as our youngsters go, example: here we have a little boy, who was not fortunate enough too go to pre-k, but was fortunate enough, too be at home with his mommy, his birthday is in late novemeber, so he enetered kindergarten, at the age of four, and was considered behind standards, because he didn&#039;t go to pre-k, however he knew all his basics, colors, numbers, and shapes, although he was bit on the shy side, being he wasnt pushed out there, to have others watch him, aside from family, well anyway, they proceeded to pass him along too grade 1,  stating they do not keep children back in kindergarten, now here we are today, school statinghe is below kindergarten level, in which i totally disagree, for i have seen such great progress with this child, i feel we are pushing our children, way too soon, keep in mind each child does have different developing rates, the pressure that the school is putting on the child, and parents seems to be totally unfair, than they label a kid that he has alearning disability?, this is far from true, i can remeber as a child, there was no such thing as pre-k, we enetered kindergarten, and went from there, and we still all developed at different rates, but many of us ended up with great careers, because we did not go too pre-k, we were not labeled, some kids are not socially ready at age 4, and 5, why are we pushing these babies, most importantly, is having that mother, be home with that child, than we wonder why todays generation of kids, are getting into trouble at young ages, drinking, drugs, sex, and mischief, we are pushing our kids way too soon, parents dont have time as they did years ago, because both have too work, a child gets shuffled from day care, too pre-k, than before you know it after school programs, i think the unity of a family is much more important, than pushing alittle one to be head of the class, we havemany top leaders today, that never went too pre-k, we need to think what is more important, in our childs developing years, its so unfair to these children, that did not go to pre-k, i now understand why so many are choosing home schooling, which may be the right way too go.