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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused.  This person did something close to a double red-shirt?

My DS is early October, and is one of the older 3rd graders at 9.

But you're saying this kid missed the cutoff by a few days and is already 9, but that would basically mean they were a full year older than even the oldest kids?

Anyway, I feel you OP.  I'm SO TIRED of my best friend complaining that her son isn't challenged in school.  If you wanted to your kid to be challenged, put him in the GD grade he's supposed to be in![/quote]
NP but I think it goes like this:

Young Five the 5yo just before the cutoff, immediately turns 6

Kindergarten at 6, immediately turns 7

1st at 7, immediately 8

2nd at 8, immediately 9[/quote]

This is bonkers to me - of course, my kid is a few days before the cutoff in the school system she started in, and a few days after in our new school district.  There are several girls who are 11 months or so older than her, and I think a handful of boys who are 16-18 moths older than her, but I can’t think if any girls (or boys) who are almost 2 years older than her.   I only know ages because my daughter was fixated on them and complained about being younger in 2nd/3rd grade.

I also know she’d have felt like we didn’t have any confidence in her abilities if we red shirted her, because all her pre-K friends were going into K.

When I was looking at start dates, I did see one school system say they might move kids who were older 6 year olds into first grade directly- but I haven’t heard of that happening. [/quote]

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