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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is born in November 2015, so he won't go to public K till September 2021. At our current private preschool, some mom tells me that they are going to hold off sending their June/July/August 2015 kids to public K next year, and instead their kids will attend current private preschool with Kindergarten program. They won't send them to public school till September 2021 because they want their kids to be oldest. I am curious what grade their kids (attend kindergarten privately) will attend at public school in September 2021, public K or public Grade 1? [/quote]

If the parents want them to be the oldest, then they will have to send them to public K in fall of 2021.  If they send them to public 1st grade they will not be among the oldest in the grade.  That said, private K is a good way to buy time, not put a young 5 (often a young 5 year old boy) in [b]a very structured and academically focused environment (as many public Kindergartens are) [/b]and then evaluate at the end of the year, with input from the private K teachers, whether public K or public 1st grade is more appropriate.  [/quote]

No. Many private Ks are more academic than publics, which just focus on rule-following and proper communication that first year because class sizes are so big. [/quote]

It's not that private K's are more academic in a traditional sense, though. Most of them are academic in an age-appropriate way, meaning they incorporate play.

DD was born in October, so she'll miss the cutoff for kindergarten. She's in a preschool that has a junior K year, so she'll do that and then will start kindergarten the fall she turns 6. [/quote]

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