Originally Posted by squishys
DS7 recently went to a trial art class for kids. They have a 5-8 year old group and a 8-13 year old group; my son went to the former. When enrolling him to continue, the teacher suggested he join the latter.

Wouldn't it be nice if all classes went by ability, rather than age?

goodness, YES. DD5's dance and swimming have done that for her and it is the best thing ever. she'll get stuck at a certain point (Bronze Med/pointe) and we'll need to mark some time in other ways, but if they didn't accelerate as needed, they'd lose a whack of talented kids who would otherwise drop the activities out of boredom. funny how this concept doesn't often seem to extend to academics... (sigh)

oh, and squishys... i hope we'll be seeing some of your DS' new artwork over at The Ultimate Art Thread soon! smile

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