Almost 7 year old in kindergarten!!

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Anonymous wrote:In my child's 7th grade home room there is one 15 year old. About half of the remaining children are 14, half 13. My child is the only 12 year old. It is interesting to me that if I were to throw out the extremes, it would be the 15 year old and my 12 year old. Even though my 12 year old is age appropriate for 7th grade.

For parents with younger kids, unless your child lives for sports, the age differences tend to disappear as the children get older. Academically my child is top of the class. There are some social differences between the youngest and older kids, but they're less obvious in a school setting (although I think more obvious at things like school dances).

Is the 15 year old engaged, on track to graduate? Or is he going to drop out once he turns 18 and is only in 10th?

The 15 year old is engaged, although would be better off in 8th grade than in 7th. There were reasons leading to him being where he is and now unfortunately he's stuck. His mother has mentioned homeschooling him for 8th/9th as a double year and restarting him in 10th after a year out, but that's tough with the high school classes. I don't think they realized how much of a problem this would be as he got further in school. He's a great kid though and he'll be fine.

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must be going to mater dei

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Anonymous wrote:Wow folks. LET IT GO already. If you do not like YOUR KIDS school situation then make a change. Leave everyone else alone already. Last I lookeed it's a free world.

To quote George Costanza, we're living in a society. But you go on with your 8 year old kindergartner.

I did not have an 8 yr old K'er. HOWEVER, I do have a SN child and we left public becuause of assholes like you.

Reality is, for those of us with SN kids, you cannot shelter them and they need to learn to function in the outside world, and that means exposure to nasty people. However, even with a SN child, I don't see how holding them back helps with much younger kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my child's 7th grade home room there is one 15 year old. About half of the remaining children are 14, half 13. My child is the only 12 year old. It is interesting to me that if I were to throw out the extremes, it would be the 15 year old and my 12 year old. Even though my 12 year old is age appropriate for 7th grade.

For parents with younger kids, unless your child lives for sports, the age differences tend to disappear as the children get older. Academically my child is top of the class. There are some social differences between the youngest and older kids, but they're less obvious in a school setting (although I think more obvious at things like school dances).

Holy crap! My 13 year old started HIGH SCHOOL this year.

I was a junior in high school at 15!

[Anonymous]

Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

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Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

Of course, if this 15 year old is in special education, that is a different story, with possibility different educational trajectory.


Are you fine with an 8th grader driving? If he makes it to graduation, he will be 20 years old. Will you mind this 18 year old 10 grader dating your teen daughter?

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Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

Of course, if this 15 year old is in special education, that is a different story, with possibility different educational trajectory.


Are you fine with an 8th grader driving? If he makes it to graduation, he will be 20 years old. Will you mind this 18 year old 10 grader dating your teen daughter?

I grew up in Arlington and attended schools in APS from K-12. When I was 15 and taking Driver's Ed during my sophomore year of HS, there was a guy who was in EIGHTH GRADE at Swanson MS in the same class as me. He wasn't in Special Ed or anything although I believe he did a couple runs at what used to be called Argus House and that caused him to be held back. Anyway, yeah, that guy did in fact get his license and drove to and from middle school every day afterward. And dated as many 7th and 8th grade girls as he could get his hands on, ugh.

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I agree. My son is in 1st grade and there are a number of redshirted or otherwise held back boys in his class that are more than a year older. They are genuinely nice kids, but socially, they have nothing in common with a 6 year old. If too many parents do it, or too many kids are held back for academic or attendance reasons by the school, it creates an inappropriate social environment for the kids who are the expected age for their grade.

Are you honestly saying a 7 year old has nothing in common with a 6 year old? You can't be serious. I would guess 70% of 1st graders will turn 7 during 1st grade.

A number of these kids turned 8 early this year, not 7. Whatever, deny it is an issue if you want, you are not there. Fortunately we are moving next year so it won't be an issue any more for us either.

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I agree. My son is in 1st grade and there are a number of redshirted or otherwise held back boys in his class that are more than a year older. They are genuinely nice kids, but socially, they have nothing in common with a 6 year old. If too many parents do it, or too many kids are held back for academic or attendance reasons by the school, it creates an inappropriate social environment for the kids who are the expected age for their grade.

Are you honestly saying a 7 year old has nothing in common with a 6 year old? You can't be serious. I would guess 70% of 1st graders will turn 7 during 1st grade.

A number of these kids turned 8 early this year, not 7. Whatever, deny it is an issue if you want, you are not there. Fortunately we are moving next year so it won't be an issue any more for us either.

We have two kids who turned 8 the past month or two in 1st. The rest are 6 and 7. Big difference between 6 and 8.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

Of course, if this 15 year old is in special education, that is a different story, with possibility different educational trajectory.


Are you fine with an 8th grader driving? If he makes it to graduation, he will be 20 years old. Will you mind this 18 year old 10 grader dating your teen daughter?

I don't think anyone is talking about a 20 year old graduate. You'd have to be red-shirted twice for that to happen. Relax.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

Of course, if this 15 year old is in special education, that is a different story, with possibility different educational trajectory.


Are you fine with an 8th grader driving? If he makes it to graduation, he will be 20 years old. Will you mind this 18 year old 10 grader dating your teen daughter?

I grew up in Arlington and attended schools in APS from K-12. When I was 15 and taking Driver's Ed during my sophomore year of HS, there was a guy who was in EIGHTH GRADE at Swanson MS in the same class as me. He wasn't in Special Ed or anything although I believe he did a couple runs at what used to be called Argus House and that caused him to be held back. Anyway, yeah, that guy did in fact get his license and drove to and from middle school every day afterward. And dated as many 7th and 8th grade girls as he could get his hands on, ugh.

And presumably this was not a "reds-shirt" problem. But other issues...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite honestly there are worse problems then having a few kids in the class who are a bit older than the rest (which I agree with another poster - will matter less and less as the kids get older). Try going to a Title 1 school where the kids come in unprepared or not speaking English and see how your child fares in that classroom.

If this problem isn't as big as that problem, then we'll just ignore it and only focus on that problem. Only talk about one problem at a time.

Well I don't see redshirting as a problem so there's that.....

Of course, if this 15 year old is in special education, that is a different story, with possibility different educational trajectory.


Are you fine with an 8th grader driving? If he makes it to graduation, he will be 20 years old. Will you mind this 18 year old 10 grader dating your teen daughter?

How is that different from an 18 year old senior dating my daughter?

[Anonymous]

For parents with younger kids, unless your child lives for sports, the age differences tend to disappear as the children get older. Academically my child is top of the class. There are some social differences between the youngest and older kids, but they're less obvious in a school setting (although I think more obvious at things like school dances).

Disagree. I know a couple of people who regret sending their kids young--the comment: "Nobody told me about high school!"

Another kid I know was a fish out of water in high school. Very smart, good kid--but socially far behind the others--again, the youngest in his class--or at least, I assume so as the birthday was very late September. Preschool teacher and K teacher recommend another year=--but mom was insistent because he was "academically ready".

Each child is different. If you think your kid is not ready, wait a year--especially if the preschool teacher thinks so, too. Remember, that is where someone sees him interact with other kids.