Question for anyone who decided not to red-shirt
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Anonymous
| Planning to send my August birthday son to public kindergarten in Montgomery County in September. He'll turn 5 a few weeks before school starts. Hoping to hear from summer birthday parents who made this decision too and how your child is doing or did in kindergarten being one of the youngest. Any struggles you weren't anticipating? Suggestions to help prepare for being the "youngest" (which my son is already aware of in pre-k without me ever mentioning)? Do you find your child is excluded or treated differently amongst peers because of age? Are there other "younger" kids in class or are most summer birthday kids a year older? And in hindsight are you glad (or not) you sent your child when you did? Thanks for any insight you can offer. |
Anonymous
| Not in md, dc private, but glad we did as by 2nd half of k year the relevance of the age diff began to declineretty dramatically and the kids began to wonder about the tall old one. |
Anonymous
| Sent my July and August birthdays on time..no issues. They have good friends whose b-days are all throughout the year. My #1 is in MS now. While there is no way to predict this, he is an early puberty kid and looks mature for his age despite the early b-day. It's a non issue for us...no regrets. |
Anonymous
| I would red-shirt if he seems immature. Lots of others do it so I wouldn't worry about being "the tall old one." This is such a child specific question that I don't believe the answers on here will even be relevant to your child. |
Anonymous
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We did early entrance to kindergarten for one child, and being the youngest has not been a problem.
I would not red-shirt just because he has an August birthday. I also would not red-shirt just because he seems immature -- he's 5. It's developmentally appropriate for him to be immature. Everybody else in the class will be immature too. Plus, also, it's April. A lot can happen between April and the end of August. |
Anonymous
| Also, keep in mind that every year July and August are the most popular month to be born so they are disproportionately represented in each class. Your child will have lots of summer birthday classmates. |
Anonymous
| We did not redshirt either of our summer birthday children. They are in 1st and 3rd. 3rd grader we accepted to highly gifted magnet for next year. I think thy both would have been very bored academically if we had redshirted them. I asked my 1st graders teacher if she could tell re the birthday- and she said no. Would have guessed that child was one of the oldest based on behavior an academics. Dont do it just bc of his birthday. |
Anonymous
| You indicate your child is in Pre-K right now, do you find that there are any issues with him keeping up with his peers? If not, then why red-shirt? If he is able to pay attention in class, follow directions and seems ready academically I don't know if it matters that he is the youngest. I will admit though that I am not a fan of red-shirting. |
Anonymous
| My kid's a girl, so the issue may not be as pressing. But she's a mid-July b-day and we sent her on time. She was ready for it and she's done very well k. She's also quite tall, so there was no issue of being smaller than the rest of the kids. |
Anonymous
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DD was accepted EEK with abirthday 5 days past the cutoff. I have absolutely no regrets. She would have been horribly bored spending another year in preschool.
She's tall for her age and very social- so that helps. She's reading at a 5th grade level and is one grade above in math. Redshirting her would have been a big mistake. |
Anonymous
July and August are the most popular months to be born? Is this true? |
Anonymous
| All 4 of my kids were born between October and mid-December. All 4 began K when they were almost five. All 4 flourished. It was no big deal. Two skipped a grade. The bummer was driving later than friends. But the 9th graders had no problem celebrating bar & bat mitzvahs and it was the right decision for all 4. The two youngest are lower middle school age now. |
Anonymous
Has not been the case in my children's classes. |
Anonymous
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Yes it is statistically true every year for the whole population..that is not to say of course that it is true for each class.
In Which Month Are the Most Babies Born? By: Remy Melina, LifesLittleMysteries Staff Writer Date: 27 July 2010 Time: 10:54 AM ET inShare The summer has been the top season for births in the United States, according to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and August often wins the title as the month during which the most babies are born. |
Anonymous
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It's September, actually. But July and August are also big.
http://vizwiz.blogspot.in/2012/05/how-common-is-your-birthday-find-out.html |