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[quote=Anonymous]I posted about my dd's August birthday.  She started 1st, and even her teachers didn't realize she was the youngest.  However, we noticed a huge gap in physical and social development for middle school.  She was 10 years old in 5th grade, and there were girls as old as 12 by the end of the school year.  I didn't like their influence on her, quite frankly, although her close friends tended to be younger, too.

That said, if the private you want her to attend thinks it would be better for her and her classmates to repeat PK, I would strongly consider it.  One other thing to consider - you don't know that you will want her to stay at one school, and some schools have younger kids repeat a year when they are old enough to notice that they are repeating.  I have friends with daughters at Sidwell and NCS who entered the schools in late elementary and were asked to repeat, and those were kids with early September birthdays.  I don't know that that is policy, but thought I would share the anecdotes anyway.[/quote]

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