Is 7 "too old" for first grade?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I appreciate everyone's comments (except that one flex person 😆).

I honestly didn't even know there was a term for this. I think I'm fine with starting 1st grade at 7 and ultimately graduating at 18.

I was weird, I am nearly a mid-Sept baby and graduated HS and started college at 17.

Sorry OP. As someone who is familiar with education, I would not recommend holding back.

Familiar with education? Like you once read a book?!

Yes, I have read a book. We all have read a book. I am an educator.

And? Still not impressed. All educators don't recommend never holding back. You're being cagey about your so called expertise. Maybe you're a dog trainer?

I don’t care to impress you. This isn’t about you. No one said all educators don’t recommend never holding back. You are way too invested and reaching for out don’t know what with your made up “gotchas.”

Taking advice from an anonymous "educator" who won't even say what they teach is like taking advice from someone online who claims to be a "health care worker" which almost always means they work in some back office of a hospital system. A nurse or MD would identify as such.

Did you ask the pp what they teach? It doesn’t appear so in the thread.
There is such a thing as educators.
I assume you took your medication since you’ve seem to have calmed down a tad, but you’re still hell bent on making up imaginary scenarios.

Lol the “educator” pp knows they aren’t an authority on this. Their opinion is just that. The educators at OPs school have already weighed in. But sure, internet faux educator knows best!

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What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Almost all of the kids in the class will turn 7 by the end of the school year. A few will be 7 before school starts

Just like in second grade, so your argument holds no water.

Kids are 8 in 2nd grade. Mine has been 8 since November.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Almost all of the kids in the class will turn 7 by the end of the school year. A few will be 7 before school starts

Just like in second grade, so your argument holds no water.

Kids are 8 in 2nd grade. Mine has been 8 since November.

Kids should be 7 when they start 2nd grade and turn 8 either during the school year or shortly after the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

Most kids are…

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Anonymous wrote:What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

Yes, so was I. Clearly 7 in the first grade is not uncommon at all.

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Anonymous wrote:What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

My 7 in 2nd grade kid just got a 1570 on his first SAT as a 15 year old high school junior.
What's nice is that he has the luxury of time to take a gap year and collect himself before he spends the next couple of years back in the grind of school that is college.

[Anonymous]

I have a September birth, child will be 7 in first all year. Cut off in MD is September 1st. If your son has a summer birthday, not an issue (very common).

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Anonymous wrote:What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

My 7 in 2nd grade kid just got a 1570 on his first SAT as a 15 year old high school junior.
What's nice is that he has the luxury of time to take a gap year and collect himself before he spends the next couple of years back in the grind of school that is college.

Anyone can do that. There is no requirement to start college at age 18

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Anonymous wrote:As others have said, 7 is not too old for first grade, as "on time" kids start tuning 7 on the first day of school and sooner. My Fall boys were 7 for nearly all of first grade.

The question is whether you agree that homeschooling has held you child back socially. How often has your child been in a situation with 16-20 age mates for extended time?

This will be no different for the child in first or second. Either way, he’s with a new, large group of children who have already been in school for at least a year. No justification there.

OP - the school needs to fill the first grade class and has enough kids for second. That is the ONLY reason. If this were kindergarten, I would maybe believe them but in first grade the kids will already have been in school a year and they’ll all be adjusted to school. Either way, your child will be the “odd man out” when everyone else knows the rules and knows the school.

Do what you want, plenty of August kids will already be 7 in first grade but the social emotional needs to adjust excuse is utter BS.

THIS OP. Your child will be with kids who have already been in school in either grade. The social emotional adjustment excuse makes absolutely no sense.

But it sounds like you've already made up your mind. I don't know why you even bothered asking the question when you argue with anyone who says your child should start in 2nd.

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OP you need to ask this on the private school forums. In most private schools kids born in August before 1st grade have just turned 7. There might be some exceptions for girls but all the boys who were born in the summer along with some May (and maybe even an April birthday) will have turned seven before 1st grade starts.
What the school is suggesting is extremely common for private schools. So the ages for most private schools are:
K: Start at age 6 and stay 6 the entire school year or start at 5 and turn 6 by the end of the school year. (exception might be for a May birthday who will turn 7 or a mature girl)
1: start at age 7 and stay 7 the whole school year or start at 6 and turn 7 during the school year
2nd start at age 8 and stay 8 the whole school year or start at 7 and turn 8 during the school year.

So your child in most private schools should be going into 1st next year.

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Anonymous wrote:As others have said, 7 is not too old for first grade, as "on time" kids start tuning 7 on the first day of school and sooner. My Fall boys were 7 for nearly all of first grade.

The question is whether you agree that homeschooling has held you child back socially. How often has your child been in a situation with 16-20 age mates for extended time?

This will be no different for the child in first or second. Either way, he’s with a new, large group of children who have already been in school for at least a year. No justification there.


OP - the school needs to fill the first grade class and has enough kids for second. That is the ONLY reason. If this were kindergarten, I would maybe believe them but in first grade the kids will already have been in school a year and they’ll all be adjusted to school. Either way, your child will be the “odd man out” when everyone else knows the rules and knows the school.

Do what you want, plenty of August kids will already be 7 in first grade but the social emotional needs to adjust excuse is utter BS.

THIS OP. Your child will be with kids who have already been in school in either grade. The social emotional adjustment excuse makes absolutely no sense.

But it sounds like you've already made up your mind. I don't know why you even bothered asking the question when you argue with anyone who says your child should start in 2nd.

OP here. I asked this question this morning just to get some feedback (which clearly wasn't a good idea for the Internet 🙃). I've identified myself in almost every reply, there's just a few I forgot to put that upfront.

I haven't been arguing with anyone. Those are other people being rude and nasty.

I have made up my mind at this point after weighing the options (mostly in my head and with speaking with my husband).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What the? My kid was 7 in 2nd grade.

Most kids are…

The kids are going on 8. The only 7 yr olds all year are summer birthdays, 25% of the class. 75% will be 8 in 2nd.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Almost all of the kids in the class will turn 7 by the end of the school year. A few will be 7 before school starts

Just like in second grade, so your argument holds no water.

Kids are 8 in 2nd grade. Mine has been 8 since November.

Kids should be 7 when they start 2nd grade and turn 8 either during the school year or shortly after the school year.

THE RULES, according to random DCUM poster.

Lol!

[Anonymous]

Totally normal. My kid turns 7 just after the start of 1st grade.