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[quote=Anonymous]Op it depends on your kid and 3 is young.  DS is early Aug bday and our preK was adamant he should be redshirted.  But his teacher said he was ready for K and DS was adamant to do so.  In PreK he would have continued napping times and he was just so over it.  We let him go to K in public.  He also has speech articulation issues and under 50% height weight for his age.  But he did well and loved K. Started behind caught up by end academically without any additional help from us. First grade ditto but our teacher sucked and he asked to repeat.  Against the schools rec - we had to fight for this - he repeated. All good that year but maybe a bit bored.  This year in 2nd he’s doing great.  School stopped giving him speech therapy since academically he’s exceeding grade level work even though technically he’s not 100% speech.  At this time he’s at appx end 3rd grade reading and TAG math doing multiplication. The only one in his class of 17.  We do not do sanything extra with our kids beating from baby reading to them.  Socially he’s great too.  We struggled for years but now we’re committed to this track.  In hindsight I think we did it right.  Every kid is different but you have to see where they’re at iat time of decision making.  As a first time parent you’re afraid of mistakes but 3 is too young to make the redshirt decision.  As an aside, one reason we let him have a large say in decision is he told us he wanted to be in a preK at age 4 that was harder.  We had him in a great preK more daycare oriented and he wanted to learn more.  On some level DS loves school and learning.  So whether we held him back or not he was aslways going to be ahead likely.  Socially we’ll never know what was best but given his immaturity, physical size and speech issues we are ok with him being oldest in class.  We would never be completely stress free as he would be youngest if clsss the other way.  Believe me it’s been so hard to not second guess but what I’ve learned is your kid is on some level going to be themselves in either grade.  If they dare academically inclined it’ll come out.  So the question is socially what works for personality.  Good luck![/quote]

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