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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a one-week before the cut-off DD, who we did not enroll to start as a just-turned-5 year old.  She was, and is, very academically advanced, but at age just 5 still had a lot of separation anxiety and clicked with very few kids.  (Tolerated kids well generally, but friends needed to be actual friends from a younger age).  We made the right choice for her.  She really started to blossom in 2nd grade.  Yes, she was very bored at times, but now she has been identified as GT and is with her people.  Turns out the preschool friends were GT, too.  She has always been gravitating to the same type.

We did a transitional K program at a different school when some of her older preschool friends went off to K.  That worked out to be a terrific year.[/quote]

If you are a year older than other kids, its very easy to be identified as gifted.  About 40% of the kids at MCPS are identified in 3rd for gifted and test but there are very few slots so an easy way to get into the gifted program is to hold back a year, but why not send on time and then they will be challenged better being a year ahead.  My kid who we sent early was identified as gifted.  The gifted school was too far away so we had to turn it down.  [/quote]

No, the screening tests are age adjusted to the month.  So an older child needs a higher score.  My August birthday DC was selected for an HGC and it was the first time she was not the youngest in her class with since there were several summer birthdays and someone who'd skipped a grade.  Anyway, I don't think birthday games the system and you should always plan for how the regular program will serve them.  My Nov birthday DC was not in a magnets, always one of the older kids in class, and is more jaded about being unchallenged at school.

I'll plus one the not holding back for being small.  Growing up I was always the smallest (but middle of the pack age wise). It was a relief when I would switch from oldest grade of one school to the youngest grade of the next one.  I'd still get grief for being small, but it was nice to go from [i]no way you're in 5th grade[/i] to[i]6th graders are small this year[/i].  These are petty things that can't really be re-engineered, but we all remember them.  My niece (not MCPS) was held back was held back for coordination issues and she's not small.  Being noticeably bigger and more mature puts a target on her back and the queen bees have her marked as a big dummy (cruel, but thinking back I remember that was my method of dealing with bigger kids, too).  When it comes to playground wars, parents can never know if they've fixed the odds.[/quote]

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