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[quote=Anonymous]My oldest son has an August birthday and I sent him on time.  There are a handful of kids (mostly boys) who are more than a year older than him.  He is somewhat of an introvert, though sweet and friendly, and small in size and not very athletically coordinated.  Now he's in FCPS AAP, and now that he is older, I think the maturity levels are leveling out and I no longer really have concerns about him being young-for-the-grade.  He is who he is, and his birthday happened to fall close to the cut off and that's just the way it is.

In comparison, my middle guy just started K at 5.5, and I do see that he's objectively "doing better" in Kindergarten than DS1 - which is not to say DS1 did poorly - he did fine/well in K but he wasn't in the highest reading group, etc. and I would say DS1 started reading fluently in 1st, whereas DS2 is reading fluently in K (though I know from DS1 that it's ok not to read fluently in K!).

I suppose I feel "lucky" that my older one is the young for the grade one, because if it was reversed, I could see that I might have thought DS1 wasn't ready for K if I was comparing him to DS2 in K now, if that makes sense.

I like play before K, so didn't teach either to read before K - though DS2 was reading some VCV on his own before K.[/quote]

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