Do school's try to label or push kids into "development" programs so that they can get additional funding?
The reason I ask is because my kid just started kindergarten and he is young for his class (turns 5 in December and there are some kids who will be turning six before he turns five.) His teacher mentioned that she wants him to undergo some sort of speech evaluation because he has trouble with some words, sounds, letter (such as yellow coming out as lellow.) After doing some reading and research online apparently many of the speech issues he is displaying are common at his age and not resolved until later (5 or 6 years old.) The concern is what happens if the speech evaluation identifies him with some sort of issue and he gets put into some sort of delayed or slower program based on a wrongful opinion (ie. the school wants additional funds so they are tagging kids with "problems")?
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