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[quote=Anonymous]My sister has a son with a Sept. 15 birthday and the school district cut off of Sept. 30 as well.  What she did was what the PP above suggested... she sent him to a private K with the plans of transferring him to a public K to repeat if he struggled.  He was almost exactly like your child and ended up doing very well in K.  His fine motor skills really flourished once in K.

This would be the path I would take.

I have a DD with an Oct. 2 birthday who was 100% ready for K at 4.  We could have tested her and let her attend but my spouse was against that (was pushed too hard in school by parents) so we waited and she went to a PK2 school.  She was terribly bored in K because her PK2 class essentially taught her everything that they were doing.  She was able to write decently at 4 and knew about 20 words by sight.  We ended up getting a call from the teacher to have her tested for ADD and began that process.  The result was that she was bored not ADD.  They started supplementing with different work and the teacher said it was like she did a 180.  I really wish I'd pushed harder to let her be tested to start K at 4.    [/quote]

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